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Since the Quadro RTX 4000 is a single slot board, the Quadro Sync II card fit in with the external GPU chassis. One of the requisite features was support for the Quadro Sync II board so that it can be gen-locked with various video production equipment.

It is an interesting use case as the raw GPU performance was not as critical as getting several check boxes marked on the feature set which precluded many of the lower end Quadros and made anything higher end pure overkill.

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The Quadro RTX 4000 has served me well at work in an external Thunderbolt GPU chassis as a portable production GPU. NVIDIA told us it was proper to use Quadro on the RTX 4000 so that is a slight difference compared to how the Tesla T4 to T4 transition was implemented. Prior to publishing this article, we reached out to NVIDIA and asked about this existing product since Quadro was clearly emblazoned on the unit. Overall, this is certainly a GPU we wished we had looked at earlier in its product cycle.Īs a quick note here, STH recently Confirmed NVIDIA Quadro Branding Phased Out for New Products.

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This seems expensive if you are accustomed to GeForce pricing, however, compared to the software licensing and other hardware that is used in the professional content creation market the Quadro RTX 4000 is relatively inexpensive. Pricing for the Quadro RTX 4000 is just under $900, which is a sweet spot for a Quadro class GPU. Those are coming soon, but the RTX 4000’s form factor and power consumption put it in a completely different league compared to the RTX 3090. We know STH readers want to see GeForce RTX 3090 results. There is still a good reason to scale up GPUs to the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 or going to much larger dual NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 or NVIDIA Titan RTX configurations. Running multiple workloads across several GPUs is not always practical. As this happens, there will be greater divergence between GPUs with and older GPUs without hardware AI inference acceleration. More professional content creation applications are being optimized for utilizing the AI inferencing capabilities of NVIDIA’s newer architectures. This excellence in compute and inferencing makes a lot of sense for the Quadro RTX 4000. While the NVIDIA T4 has a better form factor for servers and edge deployments, this Quadro’s performance is going to intrigue some. We were surprised by how well these cards perform compared to the T4. Inferencing projects often do not require high-end GPUs, and with the Quadro RTX 4000 with its single-slot design, one can fit up to seven in a large workstation/server to split these inferencing loads across different GPUs. If you are looking at light to medium AI projects, the Quadro RTX 4000 will serve you well. The Quadro RTX 4000 competes against the GeForce RTX 2070 and sometimes higher graphic cards in many of our benchmarks. It is a single-slot, low power graphics card that packs a serious punch. There is a lot to like about the Quadro RTX 4000. Perhaps this is nearer to the edge of what a single slot blower-cooler can achieve.

We can see that there are some cooling limitations to the single-slot cooler design. Idle temperatures were reasonable at 34C.

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Temperatures for the Quadro RTX 4000 ran at 81C under full loads, in this case, the highest temperatures we saw achieved while running OctaneRender benchmarks. Blower-style coolers have different capabilities than some of the large dual and triple fan gaming cards.

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Cooling PerformanceĪ key reason that we started this series was to answer the cooling question. It is also less than twice what we see for the NVIDIA T4. This was quite a bit lower than the 160W advertised on the spec sheets. NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Power UseĪfter the stress test has ramped up the Quadro RTX 4000 configuration, we see it tops out at 122Watts under full load and 12Watts at idle. For our power testing, we used AIDA64 to stress the Quadro RTX 4000 configuration, then HWiNFO to monitor power use and temperatures.

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