Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs Quadro M4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking314not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.59no data
Power efficiency10.05no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGM204TU106
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$791 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 cores16641920
Core clock speed773 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate80.39165.6
Floating-point processing power2.573 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs104120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)no data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 192 GB/s336.0 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPortNo outputs
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
High-Performance Video I/O6+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2
CUDA5.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2015 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 80 Watt

Quadro M4000 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M4000 and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M4000 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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