
GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 3450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 3450
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 3450
125
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 3450
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
40
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
25 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A