ATI Radeon HD 3450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3450
0.048 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
+700%
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Mar 2008
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
40
Shading Units
128
4
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
48.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
197W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV620
GPU Name
G92
RV620 LE
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.181 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
