NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI Radeon HD 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1624 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +8066%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon HD 3450

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1664

Shading Units

40

104

TMUs

4

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV620

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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