NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 945 MHz vs 500 MHz
937.3x more texture fill rate: 198.7 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
Around 81% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 145 Watt
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
11.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1210 MHz
47.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11176 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2019 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	945 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 145 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11176 vs 236

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 653 vs 522

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	653 vs 522

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

522

653

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11176

236

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	522	653
PassMark - G3D Mark	11176	236
Geekbench - OpenCL	64495
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14496
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3361

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Curie
Code name	N19E-Q1	G71
Launch date	27 May 2019	24 April 2006
Place in performance rating	232	198
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,799
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz
Core clock speed	945 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	198.7 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	12.72 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	88.32 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	Large
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
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	192 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1210 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Technologies
Multi Monitor
VR Ready