Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 3450 Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 105W)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Jan 2008
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
G92
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
324 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
