NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

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

2008 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +10277%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450 AGP

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

40

128

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV620

GM204-400-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

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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