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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 is a workstation graphics card released on November 11, 2008. It has 192 shading units, 1.5 GB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 602 MHz and a 150 W board power rating. It scores 1,011 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.3.

G200-850-B3 + NVIO2-A2Workstation

6/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

192cores

Memory

1.5 GB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

602 MHz base

Board power

150 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 scores 1,011 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 54.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,381), measured across 514 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 51.

PassMark G3D Mark

1,011

Rank #1,381
Faster than 54.7% of 2,658 GPUs
514 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 23 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 40.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 5 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 35.9% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 averages DirectX 9 23 fps and DirectX 10 5 fps, across 514 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 1.5 GB

Core clock 602 MHz

Memory clock 1600 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 150 W

First benchmarked 2012-08-15

Samples 514

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1.5 GB of memory, a core clock of 602 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2012-08-15. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G200-850-B3 + NVIO2-A2

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 uses the G200-850-B3 + NVIO2-A2 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 192

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 64

Render output units (ROPs) 24

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 has 192 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 24 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800.

Clock speeds

Base clock 602 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 runs at a base clock of 602 MHz.

Memory

Size 1.5 GB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 is equipped with 1.5 GB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 has a board power rating of 150 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 150 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched November 11, 2008

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 was released on November 11, 2008.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 1,011

PassMark G2D 51

Rank #1,381

Samples 514

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

OpenCL 1.1

CUDA compute capability 1.3

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800.

Features

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 1.3

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 supports CUDA (Compute capability 1.3) under Compute and AI.