GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated5
Place by popularitynot in top-10061
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.30
Power efficiencyno data19.06
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGF100AD103
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date12 June 2011 (13 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 $999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25610240
Core clock speed475 MHz2295 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2550 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)142 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate15.20816.0
Floating-point processing power0.4864 TFLOPS52.22 TFLOPS
ROPs32112
TMUs32320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mm310 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount1792 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed702 MHz1438 MHz
Memory bandwidth89.86 GB/s736.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 June 2011 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 142 Watt 320 Watt

4000 Mac Edition has 125.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 814.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 4000 Mac Edition is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
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