NVIDIA started Quadro K4000 sales 1 March 2013 at a recommended price of $1,269 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.62 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 134.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 80 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.03% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Quadro K4000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	516
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	1.57
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK106
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	1 March 2013 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,269
Current price	$330 (0.3x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro K4000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K4000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	810 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	2,540 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	51.84	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	1,244 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K4000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K4000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5616 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	134.8 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K4000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Quadro K4000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	+
CUDA	3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K4000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro K4000 7.03

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro K4000 2723

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Quadro K4000 6659

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro K4000 6777

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro K4000 5210

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro K4000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Quadro K4000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

Tesla C2070 104.27

GRID K2 100.43

FirePro S7150 100.14

Quadro K4000 100

Quadro 6000 99.43

FirePro R5000 97.16

GRID M10-8Q 95.73

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K4000 is FirePro S7150, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.