ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs HD 6290

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 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCedarM82
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 December 2011 (12 years ago)7 January 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 cores8040
Core clock speed650 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors292 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2002.000
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs84

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 x16MXM-II
Length168 mmno data
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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6290 497
+62.2%
ATI Mobility HD 3450 307

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2011 7 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 12 Watt

HD 6290 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 3450, on the other hand, has 58.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6290 and Mobility Radeon HD 3450. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6290 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 3450 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6290
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