Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 116W)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Mar 2011
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1026 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
98.50GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
192
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
24
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.80 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
57.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
116W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
GF116
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
GF116-400-A1
Curie
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
238 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
