Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 9800 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsG92 (G92-270-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs754 million
Shaders40vs112
Compute Units2vs7
Core clock600 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs4vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
TDP25 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs21 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better