GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 3450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 3450
GeForce GTX 280
1338
Radeon HD 3450
125
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 3450
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GT200
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
602 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
240
-
Floating-point performance
622.1 gflops
48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
40
Power consumption (TDP)
236 Watt
25 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
48.2 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1107 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
141.7 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A