Quadro FX 3450 vs Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 130W)
Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Jan 2007
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
44.16GB/s
Render Config
12
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
12
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.900 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.900 GTexel/s
Board Design
83W
TDP
130W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
RV570
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
RV570 XT
(215PADAKA12FG)
Curie
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
3.0