Quadro M4000 and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

Quadro M4000

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM204

GA107

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

June 2015

March 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

773 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,573 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

80.39

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

Up to 192 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo

No outputs

Number of simultaneous displays

4

-

DirectX

12

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5

6.6

Vulkan

+

1.3

3D Vision Pro

+

-

High-Performance Video I/O6

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

Multi-display synchronization

Quadro Sync

-

nView Desktop Management

+

-