ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP vs ATI HD 3450 AGP

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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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRV620RV570
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 years ago)25 October 2006 (18 years ago)

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 cores40no data
Core clock speed600 MHz575 MHz
Number of transistors181 million330 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt66 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4006.900
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPSno data
ROPs412
TMUs412

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xAGP 8x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex2x Molex

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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz690 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s44.16 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 Connectors2x DVI2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 25 October 2006
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 66 Watt

ATI HD 3450 AGP has an age advantage of 1 year, a 45.5% more advanced lithography process, and 164% lower power consumption.

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