ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Launch date	23 January 2008 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		143
PassMark - G2D Mark		53

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV620	NV43 A2
Launch date	23 January 2008	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1588
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3