NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
72 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+600%
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3450
0.048 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
40
56
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV620
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
RV620 LE
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
