Quadro P3000 Max-Q vs Quadro RTX 4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	103	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	36.50	no data
Power efficiency	17.29	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	TU104	N17E-Q1 Max-Q
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 November 2018 (5 years ago)	1 September 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$899	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	2304	1280
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	1075 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz	1240 MHz
Number of transistors	13,600 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	60 Watt
Texture fill rate	222.5	no data
Floating-point processing power	7.119 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	144	no data
Tensor Cores	288	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	36	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	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz	7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth	416.0 GB/s	no data
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

3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

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Supported technologies

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

Optimus

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12_1
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	13 November 2018	1 September 2017
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	60 Watt

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