Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce GTX 980
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP |
140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
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GPU Name | RV620 (RV620 LE) | vs | GM204 (GM204-400-A1) |
Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
Transistors | 181 million | vs | 5,200 million |
Shaders | 40 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 16 |
Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 64 |
TMUs | 4 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
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Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | GeForce GTX 980 | |
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TDP | 25 watts | vs | 165 watts |
Release Date | 23 Jan 2008 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GP/s
GeForce GTX 980
72.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 980
144.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
8.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 980
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
48.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 980
4616.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better