Quadro FX 3450 vs FirePro D300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 150W)
FirePro D300 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Jan 2014
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
162.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
12
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
Pitcairn
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
