GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5450, which has GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 80(16x5) Stream Processors, 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 GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 101 Watts (532%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be much faster than the Radeon HD 5450 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 183808 (1436%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (approximately 2217%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		5200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115280 (2217%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon HD 5450, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		2600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69688 (2680%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.