ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 145W)

Score

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2005

Radeon R600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

145W

TDP

83W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

NV41

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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