NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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: 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, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 500 MHz
1049.5x more texture fill rate: 222.5 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
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Around 34% higher memory clock speed: 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective) vs 1210 MHz

Launch date	13 November 2018 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed	1005 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	222.5 GTexel/s vs 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective) vs 1210 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 160 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	145 Watt vs 160 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	85558
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	282.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3403.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	24.719
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	136.919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1010.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7856
PassMark - G2D Mark		653
PassMark - G3D Mark		236

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Curie
Code name	TU104	G71
GCN generation	Quadro RTX
Launch date	13 November 2018	24 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$899	$2,799
Place in performance rating	194	197
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	222.5 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	14.24 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.119 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	98.88 GPixel/s
Render output units	64
Texture fill rate	222.5 GTexel/s	2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	145 Watt
Transistor count	13600 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	4x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	9.5 inches (241 mm)	305 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	416.0 GB/s	2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)	1210 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3