Tesla V100 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1315not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.86no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRV620GV100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date10 December 2007 (16 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores405120
Core clock speed600 MHz1246 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors181 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate2.400441.6
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4128
TMUs4320

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
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDR2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1758 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s900.1 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)12.0
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A-
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2007 21 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 250 Watt

ATI HD 3450 has 900% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3450 and Tesla V100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3450 is a desktop card while Tesla V100 PCIe is a workstation one.


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