ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs GeForce Go 7800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1333not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.59no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG70M82
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2006 (18 years ago)7 January 2008 (16 years ago)

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 cores2240
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors302 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate6.4002.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs164

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-II

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed550 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth35.2 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2006 7 January 2008
Chip lithography 110 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 12 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3450 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 191.7% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
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