ATI Radeon HD 3450 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	157	not rated
Place by popularity	33	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	44.90	no data
Power efficiency	19.32	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	TU116	RV620
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	22 February 2019 (5 years ago)	10 December 2007 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$279	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	40
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	600 MHz
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	6,600 million	181 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	25 Watt
Texture fill rate	169.9	2.400
Floating-point processing power	5.437 TFLOPS	0.048 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	4
TMUs	96	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	6.5	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	7.5	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	22 February 2019	10 December 2007
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	12 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	25 Watt

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