Quadro FX 470 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 ranking107not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.25no data
Power efficiency17.31no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTU104C79
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 November 2018 (6 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 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 cores230416
Core clock speed1005 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate222.54.640
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs1448
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1625 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth416.0 GB/sno data

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-C2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 12 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 38 Watt

RTX 4000 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

FX 470, on the other hand, has 321.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 4000 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.


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