GeForce 9800 GT vs Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jul 2005
GeForce 9
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
83W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
NV41
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
