Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs Radeon HD 4570

Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Radeon HD 4570
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Nov 2008
Radeon HD 4570

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPRadeon HD 4570
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsRV710 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs73 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs242 million
Shaders40vs80
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 AGPRadeon HD 4570
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 AGPRadeon HD 4570
TDP25 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs25 Nov 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4570
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4570
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4570
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better