AMD Radeon Pro VII vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro VII

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
1924.5x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Launch date	13 May 2020 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	145 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1210 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	89784
PassMark - G2D Mark		653
PassMark - G3D Mark		236

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Curie
Code name	Vega 20	G71
Launch date	13 May 2020	24 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$1899	$2,799
Place in performance rating	198	202
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840
Pixel fill rate	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	4x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	305 mm (12 inches)	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	1210 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR3