GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Quadro FX 4500 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Quadro FX 4500

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

G70

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

September 2015

July 2005

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

430 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

302 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

109 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.32

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory bandwidth

33.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

Vulkan

N/A