NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

6.7x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 64 vs 40
3.3x better floating-point performance: 160 gflops vs 48 gflops
2x more memory clock speed: 1598 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	64 vs 40
Floating-point performance	160 gflops vs 48 gflops
Memory clock speed	1598 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

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 65 nm
4.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 105 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 105 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G92	RV620
Launch date	31 January 2008	23 January 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	160 gflops	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	64	40
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.1 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1598 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2