RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro P520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking604not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.89no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGP108AD104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date23 May 2019 (5 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 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 cores3847424
Core clock speed1303 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speed1493 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors1,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate35.83386.3
Floating-point processing power1.147 TFLOPS24.72 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs24232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth48.06 GB/s432.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA6.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 110 Watt

Quadro P520 has 511.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P520 and RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro P520
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