
Quadro FX 3450 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison
Quadro FX 3450
A100 PCIe
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV41
GA100
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2005
June 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
425 MHz
1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
83 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.100
609.1
Memory type
GDDR3
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
40 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MBps
2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
1,555 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.0
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.06.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2