Quadro FX 3450 vs RTX A5000 8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)
RTX A5000 8Q Advantages
Released 15 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
8192 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2005
Release Date
Apr 2021
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1170 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
64
-
Shading Units
8192
12
TMUs
256
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
83W
TDP
230W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
GA102
NV41 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
130 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
628 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
