AMD Radeon Pro Duo vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Duo and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 10.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 34.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8183 vs 236
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 780 vs 653
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 April 2016 vs 24 April 2006
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8183 vs 236
PassMark - G2D Mark 780 vs 653

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 2.4x more memory clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 145 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Duo
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8183
236
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
780
653
Name AMD Radeon Pro Duo NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 8183 236
PassMark - G2D Mark 780 653
Geekbench - OpenCL 56152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 141.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3621.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 112.973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 799.933
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 38251
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 38251
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Capsaicin G71
Design reference
Launch date 26 April 2016 24 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499 $2,799
Place in performance rating 200 202
Price now $849
Type Workstation Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 17.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 128
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2x 4096
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 350 Watt 145 Watt
Transistor count 8,900 million 278 million
Core clock speed 500 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 4x DVI
DisplayPort support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 277 mm 305 mm
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX DirectX® 12 9.0c
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB / s 2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 4096 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 1210 MHz
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) GDDR3

Technologies

AppAcceleration
CrossFire
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
ZeroCore