AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jul 2005
FireStream
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
83W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
NV41
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
