AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 151W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jul 2005

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

-

72

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

83W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV41

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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