Quadro FX 3450 vs Radeon R9 380X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 190W)
Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Nov 2015
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1425 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
182.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
12
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.04 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.973 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.973 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
248.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
190W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
Antigua
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
Antigua XT
(215-0877016)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
5 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.3