GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620G98
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 years ago)4 June 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 cores408
Core clock speed600 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors181 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4002.320
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.0232 TFLOPS
ROPs44
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).

InterfacePCIMXM-I
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz702 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s11.23 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 4 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 3450 PCI has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

9300M GS GDDR3, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 92.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 PCI and GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3450 PCI is a desktop card while GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI
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