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

3DMark Time Spy is a relatively new DirectX 12-based benchmark from Futuremark. It features a DirectX 12 engine, built from the ground up, to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. Time Spy is designed to test the DirectX 12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the Futuremark Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the potential of close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs like DirectX 12. Gaming benchmarks don't really pertain to a professional GPU review, but since many of you ask how these high-end cards perform relatively to their consumer-class coutnerparts, we've got this data point for you...

3DMark Time Spy & Hitman

Direct X 12 Performance

The new Quadro P4000 and P2000 notch in just ahead of the Radeon Pro WX 5100 and WX 7100, respectively, in the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark. Neither card targets gamers, but if you want to take a break from work and squeeze in some leisure time, either card will be up to the task. This also an important indicator of DX12-based rendering horsepower.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a couple of final data points -- namely, power consumption and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each graphics configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Idle power consumption is similar between all of the cards, with only a few watts separating them. It is worth noting, however, that the Quadro P4000 and P2000 technically consumed the least amount of power at idle. Under load, both cards remained relatively power-friendly as well. The Quadro P2000 used the least amount of power by far and the P4000 lands about 10 watts behind the Radeon Pro WX 71000.

In terms of noise output, the Quadro P4000 and P2000 are virtually silent at idle, but their fans do spin up to slightly audible levels under load. We would not consider the cards loud, however. If noise is a concern, the P4000 and P2000 won't be an issue.

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

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com