Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Oct 2012
GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 650 Ti .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 650 Ti
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGK106 (GK106-220-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders40vs768
Compute Units2vs4
Core clock600 MHzvs928 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs4vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 650 Ti
TDP25 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs9 Oct 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    14.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    59.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    1425.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better