The Quadro FX 4600 is an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by NVIDIA.Built on the 90 nm process, and based on the G80 graphics processor, in its G80-850-A2 variant, the card supports DirectX 11.1. Even though it supports DirectX 11, the feature level is only 10_0. The G80 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 484 mm² and 681 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce 8800 GTX, which uses the same GPU but has all 128 shaders enabled,  It features 96 shading units, 24 texture mapping units, and 24 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 768 MB GDDR3 memory with the Quadro FX 4600, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 500 MHz, memory is running at 700 MHz.

Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 134 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x S-Video