Quadro FX 3450 vs Radeon HD 5550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (39W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Feb 2010
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Evergreen
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
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
Shading Units
320
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 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)
352.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
39W
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
Redwood
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO2
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
104 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