ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 2 (1997)
GPU code nameCedarRage IIC
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)1 April 1997 (27 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz60 MHz
Number of transistors292 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.2000.06
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs81

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).

InterfacePCIPCI
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR2SDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed333 MHz83 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.328 GB/s664.0 MB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)5.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4N/A
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 1 April 1997
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 500 nm

ATI HD 5450 PCI has an age advantage of 12 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

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