ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs HD 7870
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 460 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.42 | no data |
| Power efficiency | 4.76 | no data |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | TeraScale (2005−2013) |
| GPU code name | Pitcairn | M82 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Laptop |
| Release date | 5 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.
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 cores | 1280 | 40 |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 2,800 million | 181 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 55 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 175 Watt | 12 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 80.00 | 2.000 |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.56 TFLOPS | 0.04 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 4 |
| TMUs | 80 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 320 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 64 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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-II |
| Length | 241 mm | no data |
| Width | 2-slot | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | 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 | GDDR5 | DDR2 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 256 MB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 6.4 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort | No outputs |
| Eyefinity | + | - |
| HDMI | + | - |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 10.1 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 4.1 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | N/A |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | N/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.
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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