Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Jan 2009
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
G96C
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
