GeForce4 MX 4000 vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1510
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameTU104BNV18 A4
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)14 December 2003 (20 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 cores3072no data
Core clock speed1035 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate296.61.000
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPSno data
ROPs642
TMUs1924
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount16 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s2.656 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)8.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.140N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 14 December 2003
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 150 nm

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 16 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh and GeForce4 MX 4000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation card while GeForce4 MX 4000 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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