AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 83W)

Score

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jul 2005

Polaris

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

83W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

NV41

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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