GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 3450 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 3450 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A