NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 606 MHz vs 430 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
4.4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 109 Watt
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 28 July 2005
Core clock speed	606 MHz vs 430 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 109 Watt
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

2.1x more texture fill rate: 10.32 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 227 vs 121
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	10.32 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	227 vs 121
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

121

227

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

120

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
PassMark - G3D Mark	121	227
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	120
Geekbench - OpenCL	2851
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		855
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		855

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT218	G70
Launch date	7 January 2010	28 July 2005
Place in performance rating	1493	1495
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$249
Value for money (0-100)		1.08
Technical info
Core clock speed	606 MHz	430 MHz
Floating-point performance	46.98 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s	10.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	109 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	33.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA