ATI FirePro V8800 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V8800 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: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V8800

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 94% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • 12.9x more texture fill rate: 66.0 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
  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 15.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2281 vs 149
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 445 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 April 2010 vs 28 July 2005
Core clock speed 825 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate 66.0 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 4600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2281 vs 149
PassMark - G2D Mark 445 vs 235

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 83 Watt vs 208 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 83 Watt vs 208 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V8800
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2281
149
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
445
235
Name ATI FirePro V8800 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
PassMark - G3D Mark 2281 149
PassMark - G2D Mark 445 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 36751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1180.667
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 228.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI FirePro V8800 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Cypress NV41
Launch date 7 April 2010 28 July 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499 $135.75
Place in performance rating 722 724
Type Workstation Workstation
Price now $138.75
Value for money (0-100) 1.38

Technical info

Core clock speed 825 MHz 425 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,640.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 1600
Texture fill rate 66.0 GTexel / s 5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 208 Watt 83 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 147.2 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4600 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3