GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB vs Quadro M4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	314	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.50	no data
Power efficiency	10.04	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GM204	GA104
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$791	$699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1664	6144
Core clock speed	773 MHz	1575 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1770 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	290 Watt
Texture fill rate	80.39	339.8
Floating-point processing power	2.573 TFLOPS	21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	96
TMUs	104	192
Tensor Cores	no data	192
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	1x 12-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 192 GB/s	608.3 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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no 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.

DirectX	12	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.2	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	290 Watt

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