Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh 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 ranking103not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.50no data
Power efficiency17.29no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU104B
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 November 2018 (5 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 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 cores23043072
Core clock speed1005 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5296.6
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs144192
Tensor Cores288384
Ray Tracing Cores3648

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 3.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth416.0 GB/s448.0 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 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 Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 45.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 4000 and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 4000 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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