ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs HD Graphics (Braswell)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1195not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBraswellPark
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 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 cores1680
Core clock speed320 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data292 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data11 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.104 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data667 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data10.67 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.211.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 7 January 2010
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

HD Graphics (Braswell) has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

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