AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 73% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 425 MHz
25.1x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 28 July 2005
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 83 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	83 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
PassMark - G3D Mark		149
PassMark - G2D Mark		235

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Curie
Code name	Amethyst	NV41
Launch date	29 September 2015	28 July 2005
Place in performance rating	734	730
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$135.75
Price now		$138.75
Value for money (0-100)		1.38
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	83 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3