GeForce GTS 150 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1314not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.85no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 December 2007 (17 years ago)10 March 2009 (15 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 cores40128
Core clock speed600 MHz738 MHz
Number of transistors181 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt141 Watt
Texture fill rate2.40047.23
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.47 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs464

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s64 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 VGA, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2007 10 March 2009
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 141 Watt

ATI HD 3450 has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process, and 464% lower power consumption.

GTS 150 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce GTS 150 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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