NVIDIA started Quadro FX 3450 sales 28 July 2005 at a recommended price of $135.75 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 226 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 83 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 3450: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1264
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01
Power efficiency	0.31	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	NV41
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	28 July 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$135.75	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 3450's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 3450's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	425 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	190 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	83 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	5.100	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	8	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	12	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 3450 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	226 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 3450: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	32 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 3450. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 3450, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 3450. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX 3450 0.38

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 3450 148

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 3450 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.