RTX A2000 12 GB vs Quadro P4000 Mobile

Place in the ranking	264	141
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	8.02	88.43
Power efficiency	14.37	35.41
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GP104	GA106
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	11 January 2017 (7 years ago)	23 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$819.61	$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX A2000 12 GB has 1003% better value for money than P4000 Mobile.

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 cores	1792	3328
Core clock speed	1227 MHz	562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1228 MHz	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	137.4	124.8
Floating-point processing power	4.398 TFLOPS	7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	48
TMUs	112	104
Tensor Cores	no data	104
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	26

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 size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	167 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	12 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	288.0 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 Connectors	No outputs	4x mini-DisplayPort
Display Port	1.4	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus	+	-
3D Stereo	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.6
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	6.1	8.6

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	20.60	35.54
Recency	11 January 2017	23 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	12 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	70 Watt

RTX A2000 12 GB has a 72.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

The RTX A2000 12 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro P4000 Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro P4000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while RTX A2000 12 GB is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.