Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs Quadro4 100 NVS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated376
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.58
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNV17 A3Vega 12
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date22 December 2003 (20 years ago)14 November 2018 (6 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 data1280
Core clock speed250 MHz815 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1283 MHz
Number of transistors29 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology150 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000102.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.284 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs480

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 datalarge
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeDDRHBM2
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit1024 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz740 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/s189.4 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 data6.3
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 14 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 100 Watt

Quadro4 100 NVS has 900% lower power consumption.

Pro Vega 20, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 100 NVS and Radeon Pro Vega 20. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro4 100 NVS is a workstation card while Radeon Pro Vega 20 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS
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