VIA Castle Rock vs Quadro FX 4600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1081not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.57no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)no data
GPU code nameG80CLE266
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date5 March 2007 (17 years ago)1 January 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 no data

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 cores963
Core clock speed500 MHz2 MHz
Number of transistors681 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)134 Wattno data
Texture fill rate24.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.2304 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24no data
TMUs24no data

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 x16no data
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount768 MBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed700 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth67.2 GB/sno data
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-Videono data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)no data
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2007 1 January 2003

FX 4600 has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4600 and VIA Castle Rock. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4600 is a workstation card while VIA Castle Rock is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
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