Matrox G550 vs Radeon R7 450 OEM

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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)G500 (2001−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeCondor
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)1 January 2001 (23 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed925 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate29.600.25
Floating-point processing power0.9472 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs322

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 x16AGP 4x
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz332 MBps
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s2.656 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.21x DVI, 1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)8.0
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)no data
OpenGL4.61.5
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)N/A
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 1 January 2001
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

R7 450 OEM has an age advantage of 15 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

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