ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce 820A

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking992not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.67no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF117Park
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 March 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9680
Core clock speed775 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors585 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate12.405.200
Floating-point processing power0.2976 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s10.67 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2014 7 January 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 11 Watt

GeForce 820A has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 5450, on the other hand, has 36.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 820A and Mobility Radeon HD 5450. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 820A
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