AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 500 MHz
937.3x more texture fill rate: 198.7 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
Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1210 MHz
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 687 vs 653
35.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8457 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 Mar 2020 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	198.7 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
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	687 vs 653
PassMark - G3D Mark	8457 vs 236

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	145 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

687

653

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8457

236

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	687	653
PassMark - G3D Mark	8457	236
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	20161
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1001

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Curie
Code name	Polaris 20	G71
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date	9 Mar 2020	24 April 2006
Place in performance rating	228	230
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,799
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate	44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	4x DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)	1210 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support