NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

24 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450 AGP +26%

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

40

8

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV620

-

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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