AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (83W vs 275W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 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
-
-
-
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-
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
-
160
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
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-
-
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
275W
TDP
83W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
NV41
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
438 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
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6.3
Shader Model
3.0
