GeForce RTX 4090 vs Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.83
Power efficiencyno data15.23
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG84AD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date27 September 2008 (16 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 $1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores3216384
Core clock speed520 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors289 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)42 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rate8.3201,290
Floating-point processing power0.06656 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs8176
TMUs16512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm304 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth20.8 GB/s1.01 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2008 20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 42 Watt 450 Watt

FX 1700 Mac Edition has 971.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4090 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
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