GeForce 7200 GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1473
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameM82G72
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 years ago)18 January 2006 (18 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors181 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.0001.800
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs44

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).

InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz334 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s5.344 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.19.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 18 January 2006
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm

ATI Mobility HD 3450 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 7200 GS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3450 is a notebook card while GeForce 7200 GS is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
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