Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 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 204W)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Jan 2009
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1242 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
159.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
-
Shading Units
240
12
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.74 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.84 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
708.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
88.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
204W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
GT200B
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
G200-350-B3
Curie
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
