Quadro FX 4600 SDI: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 4600 SDI sales 5 March 2007 at a recommended price of $5,999. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 768 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 67.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 154 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 4600 SDI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G80 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 5 March 2007 (19 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $5,999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 4600 SDI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 4600 SDI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 681 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 154 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 24.00 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2304 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 24 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 96 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 4600 SDI and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 4600 SDI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 768 MB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 67.2 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 4600 SDI. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro FX 4600 SDI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 4600 SDI is FirePro 2270.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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