ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

BroadwayGPU NameGF106
Broadway PRO
(216-0769024)
Model numberGF106-250-KA-A1
TeraScale 2ArchitectureFermi
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size40 nm
1,040 millionTransistors1,170 million
166 mm²Die Size238 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 7th, 2010Release DateSep 13th, 2010
Manhattan
(Mobility HD 5800)
FamilyGeForce 400
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
M9xPredecessorGeForce 200
MXM-B (3.0)Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size1024 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR5
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
64.00 GB/sBandwidth57.73 GB/s

Performance

10.05 GPixel/sPixel fillrate6.264 GPixel/s
25.12 GTexel/sTexture fillrate25.06 GTexel/s
1,005 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance601.3 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
Memory Clock902 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
628 MHzGPU Clock783 MHz

Render Config

800Shading Units192
40TMUs32
16ROPs16
8 KB (per CU)L1 Cache64 KB (per SM)
256 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

MXM ModuleSlot WidthDual-slot
30 WThermal design power (TDP)106 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI
B971Board NumberP1060

API support

11.2 (11_0)DirectX12 (11_0)
4.4OpenGL4.6
1.2OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.0Shader Model5.1