Arc A780 vs Quadro M4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking314not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.50no data
Power efficiency10.05no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGM204DG2-512
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$791 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 cores16644096
Core clock speed773 MHz2200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate80.39563.2
Floating-point processing power2.573 TFLOPS18.02 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs104256
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 4.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin2x 8-pin
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1093 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 192 GB/s559.6 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
High-Performance Video I/O6+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 200 Watt

Quadro M4000 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

Arc A780, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M4000 and Arc A780. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M4000 is a workstation graphics card while Arc A780 is a desktop one.


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