The Quadro FX 3450 was a professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on July 28th, 2005. Built on the 130 nm process, and based on the NV41 graphics processor, in its NV41 GL variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0c. Since Quadro FX 3450 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV41 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 225 mm² and 190 million transistors. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units, and 8 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 256 MB GDDR3 memory with the Quadro FX 3450, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 425 MHz, memory is running at 500 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 83 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x S-Video. Quadro FX 3450 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 1.0 x16 interface. The card measures 226 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a single-slot cooling solution.