AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (83W vs 580W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

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

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

83W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV41

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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