AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 88% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • 46.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 373 vs 235
  • 17x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2534 vs 149
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 September 2011 vs 28 July 2005
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 373 vs 235
PassMark - G3D Mark 2534 vs 149

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 83 Watt vs 254 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 83 Watt vs 254 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
373
235
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2534
149
Name AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
Geekbench - OpenCL 3977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.789
PassMark - G2D Mark 373 235
PassMark - G3D Mark 2534 149

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Barts NV41
Launch date 19 September 2011 28 July 2005
Place in performance rating 721 724
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $135.75
Price now $138.75
Value for money (0-100) 1.38

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 425 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 1,536.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 2x 960
Texture fill rate 2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec 5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 254 Watt 83 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 2x 134.4 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3