Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 228W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jul 2005
Evergreen
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
83W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV41
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
130 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
3.0