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Radeon HD 4650 512MB vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

The Radeon HD 4650 512MB features core clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5450, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this specific model. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5450 19 Watts
Radeon HD 4650 512MB 55 Watts
Difference: 36 Watts (189%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 4650 512MB should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 5450 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4650 512MB 16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4650 512MB is quite a bit (more or less 269%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

Radeon HD 4650 512MB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 5200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14000 (269%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4650 512MB is superior to the Radeon HD 5450, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4650 512MB 4800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 2600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2200 (85%)

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 Radeon HD 4650 512MB Radeon HD 5450
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Sep 10, 2008 February 4, 2010
Code Name RV730 PRO Cedar PRO
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 55 watts 19 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 19200 Mtexels/sec 5200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4800 Mpixels/sec 2600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 8
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 514 million 292 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16, AGP 8x PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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