I just bought a refurbished HP z400 workstation with a Xeon W3530, 24Gb RAM and an Nvidia NVS 300 Gfx card. While cleaning out my parts cupboard I discovered I have a pair of Quadro FX 3450 cards. The z400 has two PCIx x16 slots for dual cards. I looked up the specs of the two types of Quadro and am confused as to which would be faster for my needs - no gaming, just home office use and lots of Photoshop. The FX3450 has 256mb of GDDR3 a 256bit memory bus at 900Mhz and a Gb/sec of 32, no CUDA. The NVS 300 has 512mb of GDDR3, a 64bit memory bus and a Gb/sec of 12.6 but also 16 CUDA cores.
So before I go mad trying to work out what will be fastest for me, can anyone help me decide what will give me the best performance - the current NVS 300 or swap it out for one or two of the FX 3450s?
So before I go mad trying to work out what will be fastest for me, can anyone help me decide what will give me the best performance - the current NVS 300 or swap it out for one or two of the FX 3450s?