Along with today’s NVIDIA Studio branding announcement, NVIDIA is also using Computex to update their lineup of Quadro GPUs for notebooks and mobile workstations. Along…
Along with today’s NVIDIA Studio branding announcement, NVIDIA is also using Computex to update their lineup of Quadro GPUs for notebooks and mobile workstations. Along with bringing some of the existing Quadro RTX desktop parts to the mobile space, the company is also launching a sub-series of parts under the Quadro T series, and finally a pair of new Quadro P series graphics adapters for the low-end.
Starting things off, we have the mobile Quadro RTX parts, which are all new for the mobile space. Like NVIDIA’s GeForce mobile counterparts, these Quadro RTX mobile parts are essentially the same chip configurations as their desktop siblings, but put into a mobile form factor and with their TDPs and clockspeeds turned down accordingly. As a result the mobile Quadro RTX parts pack all the features and VRAM of the desktop parts that NVIDIA has previously launched, while retaining a good deal of their performance and all of the Turing architecture’s functionality.
Owing to the tighter TDPs of mobile, NVIDIA’s mobile Quadro RTX stack doesn’t go quite as high as it does on the desktop. For mobile the fastest part is the Quadro RTX 5000, which is based on the same TU104 GPU as the desktop version. This part replaces the Quadro P5200 as NVIDIA’s flagship mobile Quadro part. Meanwhile below that we have the Quadro RTX 4000 and RTX 3000, which appear to be based on a cut-down TU104 and full-fledged TU106 GPU respectively.
In terms of performance, the RTX 5000 will top out at 9.4 TFLOPs, followed by 8 TFLOPs for the RTX 4000 and 6.4 TFLOPs for the RTX 3000. NVIDIA’s peak clockspeeds seem to vary a bit depending on the processor – we’re estimating anywhere from 1.39GHz to 1.56GHz – though these are still fairly aggressive for a mobile part. Sustained performance will be lower, of course, with that varying with the cooling capabilities of the host laptop.
Meanwhile in terms of memory, the situation is again a mirror of the desktop. The RTX 5000 gets 16GB of GDDR6 – a full complement of memory for a mobile TU104 part – while RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 drop down to 8GB and 6GB respectively. NVIDIA continues to treat memory capacity as a feature differentiator between the Quadro and GeForce families and even among Quadro cards, so the 16GB RTX 5000 is a halo part in this respect.
