NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

ATI Radeon HD 3450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 4.64 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 27 vs 24
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 784 vs 735
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 784 vs 735

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 August 2008 vs 10 December 2007
Texture fill rate	4.64 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	27 vs 24
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	784 vs 735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	784 vs 735

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3450

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 580 MHz
5x more pipelines: 40 vs 8
2.1x better floating-point performance: 48 gflops vs 23.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 184 vs 141

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 580 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 8
Floating-point performance	48 gflops vs 23.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	184 vs 141

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

141

184

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

784

735

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

784

735

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M	ATI Radeon HD 3450
PassMark - G3D Mark	141	184
PassMark - G2D Mark	27	24
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	784	735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	784	735

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M	ATI Radeon HD 3450
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G98	RV620
Launch date	15 August 2008	10 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1679	1680
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	23.2 gflops	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	8	40
Texture fill rate	4.64 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 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