Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q vs Tesla V100 SMX2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated170
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.03
ArchitectureVolta (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGV100TU104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date21 June 2017 (7 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores51202560
Core clock speed1370 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors21,100 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate438.4220.8
Floating-point processing powerno data7.066 TFLOPS
ROPs12864
TMUs320160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1758 MHz1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth900.1 GB/s416.0 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 dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA7.07.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2017 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 80 Watt

Tesla V100 SMX2 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 212.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla V100 SMX2 and Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla V100 SMX2 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2
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