Radeon HD 3450 PCI vs GeForce GT 710

Radeon HD 3450 PCI
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 PCI
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 PCI

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 PCIGeForce GT 710
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors181 millionvsunknown
Shaders40vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs4vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3450 PCIGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3450 PCIGeForce GT 710
TDP25 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 PCI
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3450 PCI
    2.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3450 PCI
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3450 PCI
    48.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better