NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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: 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 - Video Composition (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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 90 nm
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 145 Watt
9.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1210 MHz
54.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12931 vs 236
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 813 vs 653

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2019 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 145 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 1210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12931 vs 236
PassMark - G2D Mark	813 vs 653

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12931

236

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

813

653

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	12931	236
PassMark - G2D Mark	813	653
Geekbench - OpenCL	61445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6260

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Curie
Code name	TU116	G71
Launch date	22 February 2019	24 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$279	$2,799
Place in performance rating	200	198
Price now	$279.99
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	67.32
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	278 million
Texture fill rate		2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	4x DVI
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	229 mm	305 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	1210 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3