Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce GTX 950

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders40vs768
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock600 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs4vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 950
TDP25 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better