
Quadro FX 4500 and GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Quadro FX 4500
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G70
G92
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2005
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
430 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
112
Power consumption (TDP)
109 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.32
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
33.6 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A