GF117 vs Radeon HD 3450

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	951
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	1.55
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	RV620	GF117
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	10 December 2007 (16 years ago)	no data
Current price	$56	$70

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	40	96
Core clock speed	600 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	181 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	2.400	no data
Floating-point performance	48 gflops	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	DDR2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	no data

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

PureVideo HD

no data

VP5

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.1	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

55 nm

28 nm

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