Quadro FX 3450 vs Radeon HD 2900 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 150W)
Radeon HD 2900 GT Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Nov 2007
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
-
Shading Units
240
12
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
12
-
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.212 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.212 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
288.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
R600
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
R600 GT
(215RGFDKA13FG)
(215RGFDKA13FG)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
