GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450

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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)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameCedarG70
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)14 November 2005 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

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 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors292 million302 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt108 Watt
Texture fill rate5.20012.00
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs416
TMUs824

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 1.0 x16
Length170 mm228 mm
Width1-slot2-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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s51.2 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 14 November 2005
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 108 Watt

ATI HD 5450 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 175% more advanced lithography process, and 468.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce 7800 GTX 512. We've got no test results to judge.


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