AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 1177.4x more texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 47.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11289 vs 236
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 788 vs 653
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 March 2019 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed 1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 11289 vs 236
PassMark - G2D Mark 788 vs 653

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

  • 86.2x lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 12500 million
  • Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 145 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed 1210 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11289
236
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
788
653
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 11289 236
PassMark - G2D Mark 788 653
Geekbench - OpenCL 53783
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 10411

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Essentials

Architecture Vega 10 PRO Curie
Code name Greenland G71
GCN generation GCN 5.0
Launch date 19 March 2019 24 April 2006
Place in performance rating 232 230
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,799

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1300 MHz
Core clock speed 1200 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072
Pixel fill rate 83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12500 million 145 Watt
Transistor count 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 305 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 402.4 GB/s 2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective) 1210 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR3

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)