A16 PCIe vs Quadro RTX 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking109not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.23no data
Power efficiency17.01no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU104GA107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 November 2018 (6 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 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 cores23042560
Core clock speed1005 MHz885 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5135.6
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS8.678 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs14480
Tensor Cores28880
Ray Tracing Cores3620

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 4.0 x16
Length241 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth416.0 GB/s231.9 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 Connectors3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 250 Watt

RTX 4000 has 56.3% lower power consumption.

A16 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 4000 and A16 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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