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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 4600 sales 5 March 2007 at a recommended price of $1,999 . 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 1.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 67.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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 134 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.10% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 4600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1012 | |
| Value for money | 0.04 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G80 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 5 March 2007 (16 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,999 | |
| Current price | $179 (0.1x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Quadro FX 4600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 4600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 681 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 134 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 24.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 230.4 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 4600 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 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 4600: 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 1400 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 67.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 4600. 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 support
APIs supported by Quadro FX 4600, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 4600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Quadro FX 4600 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Quadro FX 4600 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 4600 is FirePro V3900, which is faster by 52% and higher by 148 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 4600:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro FX 4600 according to our statistics.
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