NVIDIA T1000 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200

NVIDIA T1000

The Nvidia T1000 is a professional desktop graphics card for small entry-level workstations. It is based on the same TU117 Turing chip as the consumer GeForce GTX1650. The number of shader units is also identical at 896. With 8 GB VRAM, the Nvidia T1000 however offers more VRAM, which is still connected via a 128 bit memory bus. The power consumption of the Nvidia T1000 is only rated at 50 watts and therefore does not require an additional power connection.

The professional graphics cards offer certified drivers which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospecting, visualization applications). As a result, the performance in these areas is significantly better compared to consumer graphics cards with the same chip.

In contrast to the more powerful RTX cards (e.g. Quadro RTX 3000), they do not offer ray tracing and tensor cores. The Turing architecture has also seen significant improvements at the CUDA core level. Float and INT operations can now be executed simultaneously, the cache has been standardized and improved and adaptive shading has been introduced. As a result, Nvidia claims up to 50% higher performance per core compared to Pascal.

NVIDIA Quadro P4000

The Nvidia Quadro P4000 is a mobile high-end workstation graphics card for notebooks. There is currently no consumer counterpart and the GPU is sitting between the Quadro P3000 (GTX 1060) and Quadro P5000 (GTX 1070). It is equipped with 1792 shaders and should therefore use the same GP104 chip from the P5000 (2048 shaders). It has 8 GB GDDR-VRAM at the same bandwidth and has the similar 100-Watt TGP according to Nvidia.

The Quadro GPUs offer certified drivers, which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospection, and visualizing applications). The performance in these areas is therefore much better compared to corresponding consumer GPUs.

NVIDIA Quadro P4200

The Nvidia Quadro P4200 is a mobile high-end workstation graphics card for notebooks. It is based on the GP104 chip (like the consumer GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080 for laptops) and features 2304 shader cores. The clock rate is not disclosed but the theoretical SP performance is rated at 8.9 TFLOPs (for the fast Max-P version) and therefore faster than the old Quadro P5000 but below the Quadro P5200 (see table below). The P4200 is equipped with 8 GB GDDR5 which leads to 224 GB7s peak bandwidth due to the 256 Bit memory bus. There are two variants available, a Max-P performance version and a Max-Q version tuned for efficiency (with lower clock speeds).

The Quadro GPUs offer certified drivers, which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospection, and visualizing applications). The performance in these areas is therefore much better compared to corresponding consumer GPUs.

Power Consumption

The power consumption of the Quadro P4200 is rated at 115 Watt TGP (max power consumption incl. memory) and therefore 15 Watt more than the Quadro P5000. The card is therefore best suited for large 17-inch notebooks.