NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
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
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
12
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
83W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
NV41
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
398 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
