ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI vs GeForce 9300 GE

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1387not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG98RV620
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 June 2008 (16 years ago)23 January 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$22.99 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores840
Core clock speed540 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors210 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rate4.3202.400
Floating-point processing power0.0208 TFLOPS0.048 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s6.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2008 23 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm

9300 GE has an age advantage of 4 months.

ATI HD 3450 PCI, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9300 GE and Radeon HD 3450 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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