Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs Radeon HD 7790
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP |
60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7790 . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports FreeSync |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports TrueAudio |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
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GPU Name | RV620 (RV620 LE) | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
Transistors | 181 million | vs | 2,080 million |
Shaders | 40 | vs | 896 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 14 |
Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 4 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
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Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3450 AGP | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
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TDP | 25 watts | vs | 85 watts |
Release Date | 23 Jan 2008 | vs | 22 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 7790
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 7790
56.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
8.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7790
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
48.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7790
1792.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better