Quadro FX 3450 vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 105W)
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Nov 2007
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
Shading Units
320
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
RV670
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
