Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP |
| 50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3850 AGP . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 3450 AGP | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 PRO) | vs | RV620 (RV620 LE) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 666 million | vs | 181 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 40 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 668 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 4 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 3450 AGP | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 828 MHz
1656 MHz effective | vs | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 3450 AGP | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 25 watts |
| Release Date | 3 Jan 2008 | vs | 23 Jan 2008 |
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
2.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
53.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
8.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
427.50 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
48.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better