Matrox Millennium G450 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1287	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.28	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	G400 (1999−2002)
GPU code name	Cedar	Condor
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	4 February 2010 (14 years ago)	April 2000 (24 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 cores	80	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	125 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	10 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	5.200	0.25
Floating-point processing power	0.104 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	2
TMUs	8	2

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	170 mm	150 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	DDR2	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	2.656 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	6.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	None
OpenCL	1.2	None
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm

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