Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI HD 5450

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)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameCedarTahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 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 cores801536
Core clock speed650 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors292 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate5.20088.80
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS2.842 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs896

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 3.0 x16
Length170 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s240.0 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 VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 31 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 185 Watt

ATI HD 5450 has 873.7% lower power consumption.

HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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