RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated10
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.65
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG80AD103
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date5 March 2007 (17 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,999 no data

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 cores1287680
Core clock speed600 MHz2070 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2580 MHz
Number of transistors681 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)171 Watt210 Watt
Texture fill rate38.40619.2
Floating-point processing power0.3686 TFLOPS39.63 TFLOPS
ROPs2480
TMUs32240
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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 4.0 x16
Length312 mm245 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB24 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s432.0 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 DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2007 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 171 Watt 210 Watt

FX 5600 Mac Edition has 22.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4500 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition and RTX 4500 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
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