Quadro FX 3450 vs Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 28.80GB/s)
Radeon R7 250 Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 83W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Oct 2013
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
55W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
Cape Verde
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1