NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 783 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 13.9x more texture fill rate: 25.06 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • 48x more pipelines: 192 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 3608 MHz vs 900 MHz
Launch date 15 March 2011 vs 13 March 2006
Core clock speed 783 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 25.06 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 3608 MHz vs 900 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 106 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 106 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 12.611
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 422.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.255
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 49.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3313
PassMark - G3D Mark 45
PassMark - G2D Mark 132

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF116 G72
Launch date 15 March 2011 13 March 2006
Place in performance rating 1187 1190
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 783 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 192 4
Texture fill rate 25.06 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 112 million
Boost clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 350 Bit
Memory clock speed 3608 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 64
Shared memory no

Technologies

CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II