GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5450, which comes with a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 80(16x5) SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5450		19 Watts
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (216%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti will be 575% quicker than the Radeon HD 5450 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 73600 (575%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti should be much (about 685%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		5200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35600 (685%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 750 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		2600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13720 (528%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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