GeForce4 Ti 4200 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1502
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameRV620NV25 A2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 years ago)6 February 2002 (22 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 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors181 million63 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.4002.000
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs48

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).

InterfacePCIAGP 4x
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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s4 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 S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)8.1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 6 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 3450 PCI has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 PCI and GeForce4 Ti 4200. We've got no test results to judge.


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