GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRV6xx (2008−2010)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameno dataGF106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2010 (14 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$129

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 coresno data144
Core clock speedno data790 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,170 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data106 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.96
Floating-point processing powerno data0.455 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data210 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1536 MB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2010 11 October 2010

GTS 450 OEM has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3400 and GeForce GTS 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3400 is a notebook card while GeForce GTS 450 OEM is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400
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