Radeon Vega 6 Mobile vs Quadro FX 4600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1075not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.58no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG80Cezanne
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 March 2007 (17 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 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 cores96384
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistors681 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)134 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0038.40
Floating-point processing power0.2304 TFLOPS1.229 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs2424

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 x16IGP
Length229 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount768 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth67.2 GB/sno data

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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2007 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 90 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 134 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 6 Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 197.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4600 and Radeon Vega 6 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4600 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Vega 6 Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
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AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
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