ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Graphics Processor
| GPU model | Cedar | NV35 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU variant | Cedar PRO | FX 5900 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Rankine |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Manufacturing process | 40 nm | 130 nm |
| Number of transistors | 292 million | 135 million |
| Die size | 59 mm² | 207 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Release date | Feb 4th, 2010 | May 12th, 2003 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | Evergreen | GeForce FX |
| Production | End-of-life | End-of-life |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x1 | AGP 8x |
| Reviews | 34 in our database | 11 in our database |
| Predecessor | Radeon R700 | GeForce 4 Ti |
| Successor | Northern Islands | GeForce 6 AGP |
| Launch price | — | 399 USD |
Clocks
| GPU clock | 650 MHz | 400 MHz |
|---|---|---|
| Memory clock | 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective | 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective |
Memory Configuration
| Memory size | 512 MB | 128 MB |
|---|---|---|
| Memory type | DDR3 | DDR |
| Memory bus width | 64 bit | 256 bit |
| Bandwidth | 8.000 GB/s | 27.20 GB/s |
Render Configuration
| Shading units | 80 | — |
|---|---|---|
| TMUs | 8 | 8 |
| ROPs | 4 | 4 |
| Compute units | 2 | — |
| Cache L1 | 8 KB (per CU) | — |
| Cache L2 | 128 KB | — |
| Pixel shaders | — | 4 |
| Vertex shaders | — | 3 |
Performance
| Pixel rate | 2.600 GPixel/s | 1.600 GPixel/s |
|---|---|---|
| Texture rate | 5.200 GTexel/s | 3.200 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) performance | 104.0 GFLOPS | — |
| Vertex rate | — | 300.0 MVertices/s |
Dimensions & Outputs
| Slot width | Single-slot | Single-slot |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 170 mm 6.7 inches | 218 mm 8.6 inches |
| TDP | 19 W | unknown |
| Suggested PSU | 200 W | 200 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video |
| Power connectors | — | 1x Molex |
API Support & Features
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 9.0a |
|---|---|---|
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 1.5 (2.1) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | — |
| Vulkan | — | — |
| Shader model | 5.0 | — |
| Pixel shader | — | 2.0a |
| Vertex shader | — | 2.0a |
