NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 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).

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
825.5x more texture fill rate: 175.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 90 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 145 Watt
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
35.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8366 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2019 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	175.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 145 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8366 vs 236

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 653 vs 343

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	653 vs 343

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8366

236

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

343

653

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8366	236
PassMark - G2D Mark	343	653
Geekbench - OpenCL	68305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	220.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2046.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.026
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.532
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	645.647
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Curie
Code name	TU106	G71
Launch date	27 May 2019	24 April 2006
Place in performance rating	325	198
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,799
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1215 MHz
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	175.0 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.20 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.599 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	77.76 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	175.0 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Width	IGP
Length		305 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Memory clock speed		1210 MHz