AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 225W)

Score

FirePro W8000

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jul 2005

FirePro

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

83W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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