NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jul 2005

GeForce 400

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

-

60

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

83W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

NV41

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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