AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
13.8x more texture fill rate: 70.4 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1000 MHz
17.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2608 vs 149
Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 439 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 December 2010 vs 28 July 2005
Texture fill rate	70.4 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2608 vs 149
PassMark - G2D Mark	439 vs 235

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

6x lower typical power consumption: 83 Watt vs 500 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	83 Watt vs 500 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2608

149

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

439

235

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
PassMark - G3D Mark	2608	149
PassMark - G2D Mark	439	235
Geekbench - OpenCL	6105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	16.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	899.056
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.698
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	251.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	11657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	11657
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Curie
Code name	Cayman	NV41
Design	AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date	14 December 2010	28 July 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	$135.75
Place in performance rating	721	724
Price now	$89.99	$138.75
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	45.34	1.38
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1408
Texture fill rate	70.4 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	500 Watt	83 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	222 million
Core clock speed		425 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire