Tesla P4 vs Quadro NVS 440

Place in the ranking	1523	294
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.22	22.33
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	NV43 A4	GP104
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	14 February 2006 (19 years ago)	13 September 2016 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$96.99	no data

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	no data	2560
Core clock speed	250 MHz	886 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1114 MHz
Number of transistors	146 million	7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	31 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	2.000 ×2	178.2
Floating-point processing power	no data	5.704 TFLOPS
ROPs	8 ×2	64
TMUs	8 ×2	160
L1 Cache	no data	960 KB
L2 Cache	no data	2 MB

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 1.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	187 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB ×2	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit ×2	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	250 MHz	1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s ×2	192.3 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

2x DMS-59

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	3.0	6.4
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	6.1

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

NVS 440 0.09

Tesla P4 21.78
+24100%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

NVS 440 37
Samples: 21

Tesla P4 9109
+24519%

Samples: 54

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.09	21.78
Recency	14 February 2006	13 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	110 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	31 Watt	75 Watt

NVS 440 has 141.9% lower power consumption.

Tesla P4, on the other hand, has a 24100% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

The Tesla P4 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro NVS 440 in performance tests.