NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell is a graphics card released on March 18, 2025, built on the Blackwell architecture. It has 10,496 shading units and a boost clock of 2.62 GHz. It scores 33,509 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports Vulkan 1.3 and OpenCL 3.0.
Depth: 25 recorded fields, 9 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell scores 33,509 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 99.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #10), measured across 135 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 1,331.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell averages DirectX 9 402 fps, DirectX 10 202 fps, DirectX 11 315 fps, DirectX 12 120 fps and GPU Compute 18,947 ops/s, across 135 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell is based on the Blackwell architecture and uses the GB203 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell has 10,496 shading units, 328 texture mapping units and 112 render output units.
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 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 RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell runs at a base clock of 1.59 GHz and boosts to 2.62 GHz.
Memory
Market
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell was released on March 18, 2025 and launched at a price of $2,623.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell supports Vulkan 1.3 and OpenCL 3.0.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell.
Media engine
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: Yes; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (9th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (6th Generation, decoder engines: 2).
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell?
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell scores 33,509 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 99.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #10. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 120 fps.
Does the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell support AV1 encoding?
Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell supports AV1 hardware encoding and AV1 hardware decoding.
When was the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell was released on March 18, 2025 and launched at a price of $2,623.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
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- Architecture: Blackwell (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GB203 -> Blackwell. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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