ATI Radeon HD 5470 vs ATI Mobility HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1172
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.53
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameParkCedar
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)13 February 2012 (12 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 cores8080
Core clock speed650 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors292 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2005.200
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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
Lengthno data170 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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s6.4 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 13 February 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 19 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5450 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 72.7% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5470, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 5470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5450 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5470 is a desktop one.


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