AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 274W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jul 2005
FirePro
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1270 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
83W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV41
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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5.1
Shader Model
3.0
