Quadro4 500 Go GL vs NVS 4200M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1159not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.03no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameGF119NV17 A4
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)23 April 2002 (22 years ago)

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 cores48no data
Core clock speed810 MHz220 MHz
Number of transistors292 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.4800.88
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs84

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXMAGP 4x

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 typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz220 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s3.52 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 23 April 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

NVS 4200M has an age advantage of 8 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 4200M and Quadro4 500 Go GL. We've got no test results to judge.


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