RTX A4500 Mobile vs Quadro FX Go540

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated78
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.14
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV43GA104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date9 August 2004 (20 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

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 data5888
Core clock speed300 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors146 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate2.400276.0
Floating-point processing powerno data17.66 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs8184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed225 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth7.2 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 August 2004 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 140 Watt

FX Go540 has 460% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 17 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX Go540 and RTX A4500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540
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