NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

8 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +93%

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450 AGP

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV620

G84-400-A2

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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