
Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3450
GeForce FX 5500 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
RV620
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
48 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
-
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.400
1.080
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A