Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs Quadro FX 4800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking822not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.17no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT200BTU104B
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,799 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 cores1923072
Core clock speed602 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate38.53296.6
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs2464
TMUs64192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s448.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA1.37.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 11 years, a 966.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 358.3% more advanced lithography process, and 36.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4800 and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4800 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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