Quadro FX 3450 vs FirePro V5900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro V5900 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
May 2011
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
Cayman
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
Cayman LE WS
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
5.0