ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs HD 7870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking457not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.45no data
Power efficiency4.79no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code namePitcairnM82
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 March 2012 (13 years ago)7 January 2008 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores128040
Core clock speed1000 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate80.002.000
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs804
L1 Cache320 KBno data
L2 Cache512 KB64 KB

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 3.0 x16MXM-II
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)10.1
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Synthetic benchmarks

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



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 7870 21348
+6865%
ATI Mobility HD 3450 307

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2012 7 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 12 Watt

HD 7870 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 3450, on the other hand, has 1358.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870 and Mobility Radeon HD 3450. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7870 is a desktop graphics card while Mobility Radeon HD 3450 is a notebook one.

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