Apple A14 Bionic vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of Apple A14 Bionic and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Apple A14 Bionic

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A14 Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	23 Oct 2020 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1278 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A14 Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Name	Apple A14 Bionic	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6721
PassMark - G2D Mark		653
PassMark - G3D Mark		236

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A14 Bionic	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Launch date	23 Oct 2020	24 April 2006
Place in performance rating	202	197
Architecture		Curie
Code name		G71
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,799
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	654 GFLOPS
Pipelines	4
Render output units	16
Texture fill rate		2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		145 Watt
Transistor count		278 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed		1210 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		4x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		305 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.1