NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 and ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 3x more texture fill rate: 17.28 GTexel / s vs 5.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 144 vs 120
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 414.7 gflops vs 174 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 7.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1101 vs 150
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 325 vs 155
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 May 2011 vs 23 January 2008
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s vs 5.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 144 vs 120
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops vs 174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1101 vs 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 325 vs 155

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 70 Watt
Core clock speed 725 MHz vs 720 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1101
150
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
325
155
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1101 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 325 155
Geekbench - OpenCL 3677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 306.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.564
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 35.369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GF116 RV635
Launch date 14 May 2011 23 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $149
Place in performance rating 1092 1095
Price now $55.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 26.90

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops 174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 144 120
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s 5.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 378 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2