Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3450
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
48 gflops
80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
32
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
8.000
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1584 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
25.34 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
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