Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3450
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
48 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
96
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
27.84
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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