Radeon RX 7700 XT vs ATI HD 5450 PCIe x1

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated39
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data71.30
Power efficiencyno data16.33
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCedarNavi 32
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)25 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores803456
Core clock speed650 MHz1435 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2544 MHz
Number of transistors292 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200549.5
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS35.17 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs8216
Ray Tracing Coresno data54

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 x1PCIe 4.0 x16
Length170 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s432.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
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API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 25 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 245 Watt

ATI HD 5450 PCIe x1 has 1189.5% lower power consumption.

RX 7700 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 and Radeon RX 7700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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