NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS and ATI Radeon HD 3450 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

ATI Radeon HD 3450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 26 vs 25
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 747 vs 735
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 747 vs 735

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 10 December 2007
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 25 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	26 vs 25
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	747 vs 735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	747 vs 735

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3450

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 550 MHz
5x more pipelines: 40 vs 8
2.1x better floating-point performance: 48 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 155 vs 100

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 8
Floating-point performance	48 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	155 vs 100

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

155

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

735

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

735

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	ATI Radeon HD 3450
PassMark - G3D Mark	100	155
PassMark - G2D Mark	26	25
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	747	735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	747	735

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	ATI Radeon HD 3450
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G98	RV620
Launch date	4 June 2008	10 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1679	1680
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	8
Floating-point performance	22.4 gflops	48 gflops
Gigaflops	34
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	8	40
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-I	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA