Radeon HD 7450 OEM vs R5 430 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking806not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.72no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameOlandCaicos
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)5 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 cores384160
Core clock speed730 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate18.725.000
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs248

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz533 MHz
Memory bandwidth36.8 GB/s8.528 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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 5 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 18 Watt

R5 430 OEM has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 7450 OEM, on the other hand, has 177.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 430 OEM and Radeon HD 7450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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