ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 91 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	91 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 249 vs 247

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	249 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

249

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
PassMark - G3D Mark	91	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	249

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M82	C61
Launch date	7 January 2008	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	686	688
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Powerplay