GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs Quadro P4200 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking191not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.33no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGP104AD106
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 February 2018 (6 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores23044608
Core clock speed1215 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1230 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate213.1177.1
Floating-point processing power6.82 TFLOPS11.34 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs144144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1753 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.4 GB/s224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7 (6.4)6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA6.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 February 2018 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 16 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4070 Max-Q has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P4200 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P4200 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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