AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 31.99

$ 118.00 significantly less expensive

$ 149.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

185 points

297 points

60% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

8 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5855 points

10702 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5312 points

9779 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5652 points

10058 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4817 points

8478 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1050 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

36.8 GB/s

72 GB/s

95% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

30% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

14.8 Gigapixels/s

137% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s

29.6 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

439th of 586

377th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

Radeon R5 430 vs Radeon R7 450 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R7 450 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 430 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, the Radeon R5 430 has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R7 450 at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 450 over the Radeon R5 430.