Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 6800 XT Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Sep 2005
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
12
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
Board Design
83W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
NV42
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Curie
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
3.0
