NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M vs ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and ATI Radeon IGP 345M 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M

ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
144x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 432 vs 3
Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 126 vs 82

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 August 2012 vs 5 October 2002
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	432 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	126 vs 82

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 345M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

432

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

126

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M	ATI Radeon IGP 345M
PassMark - G3D Mark	432	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	126	82
Geekbench - OpenCL	2141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.233
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	161.144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	16.605
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1032
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2392
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1032
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2392

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M	ATI Radeon IGP 345M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 6
Code name	GF108	RS200
Launch date	23 August 2012	5 October 2002
Place in performance rating	1500	1497
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	715 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	253.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	30 million
Core clock speed		183 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	7.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers