Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 3450 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Dec 2007
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
1
-
Shading Units
8
12
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.268 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.268 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
25W
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
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
G98
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
