GeForce 610 vs Quadro FX 4500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1204not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.38no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameG70GF119
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date28 July 2005 (19 years ago)1 December 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data48
Core clock speed430 MHz738 MHz
Number of transistors302 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)109 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate10.325.904
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1417 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs248

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed525 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth33.6 GB/s14.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.1
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 July 2005 1 December 2011
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 109 Watt 12 Watt

GeForce 610 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 175% more advanced lithography process, and 808.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4500 and GeForce 610. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4500 is a workstation card while GeForce 610 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
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