Quadro FX 3450: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Quadro FX 3450 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.33% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 3450 sales 28 July 2005 at a recommended price of $135.75. This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 226 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 83 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 3450: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1325
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01
Power efficiency0.32of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNV41
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date28 July 2005 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$135.75 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 3450's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 3450's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed425 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors190 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)83 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate5.100of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs12of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 3450 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length226 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 3450: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 3450. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Quadro FX 3450, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 3450. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FX 3450
0.33

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 3450 Samples: 2 148

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 3450 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro FX 3450's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro FX 3450 100
FirePro 2270 96.97
NVS 300 81.82

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 3450 is FirePro 2270, which is slower by 3% and lower by 17 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 3450:

FirePro W2100 618.18
FirePro V3900 433.33
Quadro FX 3450 100
FirePro 2270 96.97

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