RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 84.28% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell sales 18 March 2025. This is a high-end Blackwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 896.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 5 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 32.10 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) | |
| GPU code name | GB203 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 March 2025 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 10496 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1590 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2617 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 45,600 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 200 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 858.4 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 54.94 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 112 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 328 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 82 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| L1 Cache | 10.3 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 64 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 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 5.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell: 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 | GDDR7 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 896.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell. 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 | 4x DisplayPort 2.1b |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | |
| CUDA | 12.0 | |
| DLSS | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell is Radeon AI PRO R9700, which is slower by 7% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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