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

Performance Summary: The new NVIDIA Quadro P4000 and P2000 performed relatively strong throughout our entire battery of tests. In compute workloads, they competed well against the AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 and WX 7100 series of cards, but in the SPECviewperf rendering tests, the P4000 and P2000 finished well out in front, save for only a single result (showcase-01), where the WX 7100 was able to edge past the P2000. The Quadro P4000, however, trailed only the more powerful (and more expensive) NVIDIA Quadro cards.

The NVIDIA Quadro P4000 (top) & P2000 (bottom) - Find Them At Amazon

The NVIDIA Quadro P4000 and Quadro P2000 are not available just yet. They are slated to arrive next month, with estimated street pricing in the $800 range for the Quadro P4000 and $500 range for the Quadro P2000. At those prices, the Quadro P4000 and P2000 will be roughly 25% pricier than the Radeon Pro WX 7100 (currently $629) and Radeon Pro WX 5100 (currently $397). Depending on your particular workload, however, the Quadro’s price premium is easily justified. The P4000 outpaced the WX 7100 by more than 25% in most of the SPECviewperf professional design and rendering tests, and the P2000 was faster in 7 out of 8 of the tests as well.

Now that NVIDIA has completely fleshed out its Quadro line-up with Pascal-based offerings, the company has class-leading or highly-competitive products in every market segment. The company's high-end Quadro P6000 and P5000 are currently unmatched, and the more mainstream P4000 and P2000 featured here are excellent, quiet, power-friendly, relatively affordable options as well.


Strong Performance In Their Segments Quiet Relatively Low Power	Not Available Yet Expected Price Premium Trailed In Some GPGPU Compute Workloads Vs. Less Expensive Competition

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