GeForce GT 545 and Radeon HD 3850 X3 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 545
Radeon HD 3850 X3
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF116
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
720 MHz
669 MHz
Floating-point performance
414.7 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
144
320
Power consumption (TDP)
70 Watt
145 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.28
10.70
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1700 MBps
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
4x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3 (full)
Shader Model5.14.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A