Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI 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 14.40GB/s)
GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (29W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Apr 2011
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
1
-
Shading Units
48
12
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
29W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
GF119
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
