AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 R7 260 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 95W)

Score

Radeon R7 260

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jul 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

83W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV41

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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