AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 500 MHz
1781.1x more texture fill rate: 377.6 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
16x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 839 vs 653
56.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13369 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 June 2017 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	377.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	839 vs 653
PassMark - G3D Mark	13369 vs 236

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	145 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1210 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

839

653

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13369

236

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
Geekbench - OpenCL	75438
PassMark - G2D Mark	839	653
PassMark - G3D Mark	13369	236

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Curie
Code name	Vega 10	G71
Launch date	23 June 2017	24 April 2006
Place in performance rating	199	202
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,799
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1475 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1250 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	755.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	24.17 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	12.08 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4096
Pixel fill rate	94.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	377.6 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	12500 million	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
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Length		305 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
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	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)