GeForce GT 630 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce GT 630 OEM, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

ATI HD 3450
2007
256 MB DDR2, 25 Watt
0.31

GT 630 OEM outperforms ATI HD 3450 by a whopping 439% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1314942
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.852.29
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameRV620GK107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 December 2007 (17 years ago)24 April 2012 (12 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 cores40192
Core clock speed600 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors181 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate2.40014.00
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.336 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs416

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
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 typeDDR2DDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz891 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s28.51 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-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.31 1.67
Recency 10 December 2007 24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 50 Watt

ATI HD 3450 has 100% lower power consumption.

GT 630 OEM, on the other hand, has a 438.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GT 630 OEM is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 3450 in performance tests.


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