Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro P4200 Max-Q

Place in the ranking	189	200
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	20.54	53.93
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GP104	AD107
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	21 February 2018 (6 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

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	2304	2048
Core clock speed	1215 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.1	129.6
Floating-point processing power	6.82 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	144	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1753 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	6.1	8.9

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	29.67	27.27
Recency	21 February 2018	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	35 Watt

P4200 Max-Q has a 8.8% higher aggregate performance score, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 220% more advanced lithography process, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Quadro P4200 Max-Q and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.