Quadro FX 350 vs Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1132not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameBeema/MullinsG72
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date29 April 2014 (10 years ago)20 April 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128no data
Core clock speed350 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speed686 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data112 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data21 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.200
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data405 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.48 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 20 April 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R3 (Mullins/Beema) has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) and Quadro FX 350. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) is a notebook card while Quadro FX 350 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)
Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 350
Quadro FX 350

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