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Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

The Radeon HD 5450 comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 780 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R5 M230 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon HD 5450 in general. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 is a lot (about 200%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 5200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10400 (200%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M230 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450 2600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 520 (20%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5450 Radeon R5 M230
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year February 4, 2010 2014
Code Name Cedar PRO Jet Pro
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 780 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 19 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5200 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2600 Mpixels/sec 3120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 80(16x5) 320
Texture Mapping Units 8 20
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 292 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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