GeForce 9100M G mGPU vs ATI 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 ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620C77
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 December 2007 (16 years ago)29 July 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 cores4016
Core clock speed600 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors181 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4001.800
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.0352 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

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/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2007 29 July 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 12 Watt

ATI HD 3450 has a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

9100M G mGPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and 108.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD. We've got no test results to judge.


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