ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6150

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 475 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 91 vs 22
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2008 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 91 vs 22

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6150

  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 250 vs 247
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 250 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6150

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
91
22
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
247
250
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 NVIDIA GeForce 6150
PassMark - G3D Mark 91 22
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 250

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 NVIDIA GeForce 6150

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Curie
Code name M82 C51
Launch date 7 January 2008 11 October 2004
Place in performance rating 686 689
Type Laptop Desktop
Price now $149.99
Value for money (0-100) 0.18

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 475 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