NVIDIA Quadro P4000 And P2000 Workstation GPU Review: Midrange Professional Pascal

Name: Quadro P4000
Brand: Quadro

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 16, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT

SANDRA's GPGPU Image Processing benchmark runs through an array of filters on its reference data and offers up an aggregate score, derived from a number of individual results. Its GPGPU Cryptography benchmark churns through an assortment of workloads, and presents individual results for overall bandwidth, AES256 encryption and decryption, and SHA2-256 hashing bandwidth. CUDA and OpenCL code paths are available in these tests; we used both on the NVIDIA-powered cards and OpenCL on the Radeon Pro WX cards.

SiSoft SANDRA 2016 SP2

Cryptography And Image Processing OpenCL / CUDA Performance Tests

The Quadro P4000 finishes about in the middle of the pack, sandwiching the Radeon Pro WX5100, depending on whether or not CUDA or OpenCL is used. The P2000, however, brings up the rear.

The new Quadros performed relatively well here, outpacing their Radeon Pro counterparts more often than not. It was only in the AES256 test that the Radeon Pro WX7100 was able to pull ahead of the P4000.

Tags: Nvidia, graphics, GPU, Quadro, pascal, p4000, p2000

Marco Chiappetta

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