AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2776 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +11633%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450 PCI

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon HD 3450 PCI

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

2

-

2816

Shading Units

40

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV620

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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