ATI Radeon HD 3450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3450 and NVIDIA GeForce 9200 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 3450

NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3450

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 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 80 nm
Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 40 Watt
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 735 vs 502
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 735 vs 502

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 December 2007 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	735 vs 502
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	735 vs 502

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 169 vs 155
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 27 vs 25

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	169 vs 155
PassMark - G2D Mark	27 vs 25

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

155

169

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

735

502

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

735

502

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3450	NVIDIA GeForce 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark	155	169
PassMark - G2D Mark	25	27
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	735	502
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	735	502

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3450	NVIDIA GeForce 9200
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV620	C78
Launch date	10 December 2007	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1680	1683
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2