Quadro FX 4600 SDI vs Quadro Plex 7000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF110G80
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)5 March 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$14,999 $5,999

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 cores51296
Core clock speed574 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt154 Watt
Texture fill rate36.7424.00
Floating-point processing power1.176 TFLOPS0.2304 TFLOPS
ROPs4824
TMUs6424

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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length522 mm229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB768 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s67.2 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 Connectors4x DVI, 2x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 5 March 2007
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 768 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 154 Watt

Plex 7000 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

FX 4600 SDI, on the other hand, has 289.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 7000 and Quadro FX 4600 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.


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