Quadro FX 3450 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 170W)
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 Advantages
Released 16 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Sep 2021
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
12
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
170W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
GA104
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Curie
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
130 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
