NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon HD 5450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 5450 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 5450

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 49.99

$ 315.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

54399% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

0 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

13838% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

392 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

15434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

387 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

166% significantly higher boost clock speed

650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

570th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon HD 5450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 5450 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon HD 5450.