NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 350W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

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

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

-

280

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

8

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

83W

750 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

GA102

GPU Name

NV41

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

130 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

628 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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