Quadro FX 4500 and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro FX 4500

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

G70

GF106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2005

October 2010

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

430 MHz

790 MHz

Floating-point performance

455.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

302 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

144

Power consumption (TDP)

109 Watt

106 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.32

18.96

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

33.6 GB/s

96 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A