Quadro FX 3000G vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1311not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.88no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameRV620NV35
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date25 February 2009 (15 years ago)22 July 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40no data
Core clock speed594 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors181 million135 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.3763.200
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz425 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s27.2 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2009 22 July 2003
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 4250 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4250 and Quadro FX 3000G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4250 is a desktop card while Quadro FX 3000G is a workstation one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4250
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