RTX A4500 vs VIA Castle Rock

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated71
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.15
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameCLE266GA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 January 2003 (23 years ago)23 November 2021 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores37168
Core clock speed2 MHz1050 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data369.6
Floating-point processing powerno data23.65 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data224
Tensor Coresno data224
Ray Tracing Coresno data56
L1 Cacheno data7 MB
L2 Cacheno data6 MB

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data20 GB
Memory bus widthno data320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data640.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2003 23 November 2021

RTX A4500 has an age advantage of 18 years.

We couldn't decide between VIA Castle Rock and RTX A4500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that VIA Castle Rock is a notebook graphics card while RTX A4500 is a workstation one.

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