GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1286not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.28no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCedarAD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores803072
Core clock speed650 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1470 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200141.1
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS9.032 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs896
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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 4.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s224.0 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 VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

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
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 35 Watt

ATI HD 5450 has 84.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5450 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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