AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

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AMD Radeon R9 290X ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5450 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

2736 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +5315%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5450 PCI

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

2

2816

Shading Units

80

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cedar

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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