NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 185W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

-

120

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

83W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

NV41

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

130 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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