GeForce FX Go5250 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 ranking1314not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.85no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameRV620NV34 A1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date10 December 2007 (17 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year 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 speed600 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors181 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.4001.000
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPSno data
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 x16AGP 8x
Width1-slotno data
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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount256 MB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s8 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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2007 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 3450 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce FX Go5250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3450 is a desktop card while GeForce FX Go5250 is a notebook one.


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