Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3450
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
December 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
48 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
64
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
19.20
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A