NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition sales 11 November 2008 at a recommended price of $1,799. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT200B
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	11 November 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	602 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,400 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	38.53	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.4623 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	24	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	64	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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