GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon HD 3450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon HD 3450
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 3450
125
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 3450
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
40
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
2.400
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A