NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 960 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 2005

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

83W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

NV41

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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