NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 602 MHz vs 480 MHz
Around 61% higher texture fill rate: 38.5 GTexel / s vs 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
12x more pipelines: 192 vs 2x 8
12x better floating-point performance: 462.3 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 2x 256 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Core clock speed	602 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s vs 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	192 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

4.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
PassMark - G3D Mark		67
PassMark - G2D Mark		89

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT200B	G98
Launch date	11 November 2008	11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799	$163.14
Place in performance rating	not rated	1422
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Price now		$168
Value for money (0-100)		0.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	602 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops	2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	192	2x 8
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s	2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3