Data Center GPU Flex 170 vs Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	168	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	27.86	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code name	TU104	DG2-512
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	27 May 2019 (5 years ago)	24 August 2022 (2 years 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	2560	4096
Core clock speed	780 MHz	1950 MHz
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz	2050 MHz
Number of transistors	13,600 million	21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	220.8	524.8
Floating-point processing power	7.066 TFLOPS	16.79 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	128
TMUs	160	256
Tensor Cores	320	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	40	32

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	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin

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	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	416.0 GB/s	512.0 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	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 May 2019	24 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	150 Watt

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