Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce GTX 980

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GeForce GTX 980
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 980
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGM204 (GM204-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders40vs2048
Compute Units2vs16
Core clock600 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs4vs64
TMUs4vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 980
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX 980
TDP25 wattsvs165 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    72.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    144.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980
    4616.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better