Quadro FX 3450 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 3450
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
NV41
GT200
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2005
September 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
425 MHz
576 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
216
Power consumption (TDP)
83 Watt
182 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.100
41.47
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MBps
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.3
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.04.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A