NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Review: Turing Powered Pro Graphics

Name: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 12:50 PM EDT

Performance Summary: All things considered, the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 proved to be a strong performer. Versus the previous-gen Pascal-based Quadro P4000, there is no comparison – the RTX 4000 was significantly faster across the board, with every workload we threw at it. The Quadro RTX 4000 also offered more performance than the Quadro P5000 in many instances, despite the latter’s much higher asking price. The Quadro RTX 4000 also skunked the Radeon Pro WX 7100 in our tests and traded blows with the somewhat more expensive Radeon Pro WX 8200, though the RTX 4000 jumped out to some big leads in a couple of the rendering tests (like V-RAY, for example). The RTX 4000, however, is also half the size of the WX 8200 (1 slot vs. 2 slot), consumes less power, and is quieter as well.

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NVIDIA hit a real sweet spot with the Quadro RTX 4000. Sub-$1000 workstation-class GPUs account for a large portion of the market, and with its strong overall performance and ~$900 asking price, the Quadro RTX 4000 address this market exceedingly well. The card is faster than previous-gen offerings that still have much higher asking prices, it has a form factor and power requirements that make it an easy fit for a variety of systems, and support for bleeding-edge features that are currently available only on NVIDIA Turing-based GPUs. Unlike its consumer-class cousins, in light of its competitors, the Quadro RTX 4000 is also priced rather aggressively.

All told, there’s a lot to like about the Quadro RTX 4000. Its performance, power characteristics, form factor, feature set, and pricing all look good versus competing solutions. If you’re considering a pro-graphics card in its class, the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 should absolutely be on your short list. It is a solid value that delivers the goods.


Good Performance Competitive Pricing Bleeding Edge Features Single-Slot Form Factor Quiet	Hard To Find At The Moment No SLI (The P4000 Had It)

Tags: Nvidia, graphics, GPU, turing, quadro rtx

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