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WE TYPICALLY LOOK at new workstation-level graphics cards just before they appear on the market, but this card has been in such demand by workstation vendors that it has taken some time to actually get one in hand for a review.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 is the successor to the FX 3400, one of NVIDIA's more popular cards for workstation-level performance. Though many aspects of the cards remain the same, bandwidth, throughput and power consumption differ substantially. Memory bandwidth of the FX 3450 is 32GB per second as compared with 27.2GB per second for the FX 3400. Geometry (triangles per second) is 150 million for the FX 3450 vs. 117 million for the FX 3400. Fill rate (texels per second) is 5.1 billion for the FX 3450, a big increase over 4.2 billion for the FX 3400. The new FX 3450 is faster, but at the same time uses less...