Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	150	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	22.42	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	TU104	Vega 10
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	27 May 2019 (5 years ago)	13 July 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,489

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	2560	4096
Core clock speed	1110 MHz	1382 MHz
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	1600 MHz
Number of transistors	13,600 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	375 Watt
Texture fill rate	249.6	409.6
Floating-point processing power	7.987 TFLOPS	13.11 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	160	256
Tensor Cores	320	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	40	no data

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	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	2x 8-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 type	GDDR6	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	945 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	483.8 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.125
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 May 2019	13 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	375 Watt

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