ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI vs GeForce GT 720A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking980not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.15no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF117Cedar
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 July 2014 (10 years ago)4 February 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)33 Watt19 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 x16PCI
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1001 MHz333 MHz
Memory bandwidth16.02 GB/s5.328 GB/s

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI-+

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 1 July 2014 4 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 19 Watt

GT 720A has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 5450 PCI, on the other hand, has 73.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 720A and Radeon HD 5450 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 720A is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5450 PCI is a desktop one.


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