Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro K4000

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Quadro K4000 with RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, including specs and performance data.

Quadro K4000
2013
3 GB GDDR5, 80 Watt
7.06
Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile
2024
4 GB GDDR6, 35 Watt
27.30
+287%

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile outperforms K4000 by a whopping 287% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking552202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.58no data
Power efficiency6.0553.47
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK106AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,269 no data

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 cores7682048
Core clock speed810 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate51.84129.6
Floating-point processing power1.244 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs6464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1404 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.8 GB/s128.0 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, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

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
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA3.08.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.06 27.30
Recency 1 March 2013 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 286.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 128.6% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro K4000 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro K4000 is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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