NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 1530 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
6.6x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 1210 MHz
49.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11691 vs 236
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 782 vs 653

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 March 2019 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 145 Watt
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz vs 1210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11691 vs 236
PassMark - G2D Mark	782 vs 653

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11691

236

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

653

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11691	236
PassMark - G2D Mark	782	653
Geekbench - OpenCL	57151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	190.366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1892.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	118.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	887.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5414

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Curie
Code name	TU116	G71
Launch date	14 March 2019	24 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$219	$2,799
Place in performance rating	240	198
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 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	8004 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