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GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 comes with a clock speed of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It features 32 SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5450, which has a clock speed of 650 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 80(16x5) SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5450 19 Watts
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 50 Watts
Difference: 31 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 should be 25% quicker than the Radeon HD 5450 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 is quite a bit (more or less 69%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 8800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 5200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3600 (69%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 4400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 2600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1800 (69%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 Radeon HD 5450
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 February 4, 2010
Code Name G96a Cedar PRO
Memory 256 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 19 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 5200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 2600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 8
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 314 million 292 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

4 Responses to “GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs Radeon HD 5450”
Shubh says:

geforce 9500 gt is better than hd 5450. go for 9500 gt

Anonymous says:

ATI RADEON BEM MELHOR AGUENTA BELO OVERCLOCK RODEI CALL OF DUTY MW3 TUDO HIGH+EXTRA COM RESOLUÇAO DE 1280X720 30 FPS DE BOA COM OVERCLOCK DE 700 MHZ GPU E MEMORIA 531 MHZ DDR2 !!!!

Nithesh says:

ofcourse shubh is right. ive tested both of em in my pc.
what i found is 9500 is 70% better than 5450

Snowman says:

In a machine with only PCI slots, these two were the top dogs for a long time. The GT520/610 cards that Zotac released in PCI after these two have only managed to knock off the HD5450 for the number two spot. 9500GT is still faster. It might be another generation or two, if ever, before someone releases a PCI card with both more features and more speed than 9500GT.

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