Quadro T1000 Max-Q vs Quadro4 100 NVS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated311
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.24
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV17 A3TU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date22 December 2003 (20 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 coresno data896
Core clock speed250 MHz765 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors29 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.00075.60
Floating-point processing powerno data2.419 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs456

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x LFH60No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 50 Watt

Quadro4 100 NVS has 400% lower power consumption.

T1000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 100 NVS and Quadro T1000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro4 100 NVS is a workstation card while Quadro T1000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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