Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TITAN BLACK

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders40vs2880
Compute Units2vs15
Core clock600 MHzvs889 MHz
ROPs4vs48
TMUs4vs240

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
TDP25 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    53.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    213.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    5121.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better