NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Max-Q

The Nvidia Quadro P3000 Max-Q (official Nvidia Quadro P3000 with Max-Q Design) is a mobile high-end workstation graphics card for notebooks. Similar to the consumer GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop), it is based on the GP106 chip with 1280 shaders. The graphics card is the more efficient version of the normal Quadro P3000 with slightly reduced clock speeds at a much reduced power consumption (60 Watt versus 75 Watt TGP).

The Quadro GPUs offer certified drivers, which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospection, and visualizing applications). The performance in these areas is therefore much better compared to corresponding consumer GPUs.

Performance

The theoretical performance should be only slightly below the normal Quadro P3000 (as it was with the Max-Q GTX 1060 versus the normal GTX 1060).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 is a professional workstation graphics card for laptops. It was announced early 2017 and is intended for Kaby-Lake based professional notebooks. The AMD Radeon Pro (formerly known as FirePro) is the counterpart to the Quadro series from Nvidia and offers certified drivers for professional 3D applications (CAD and DCC).

The WX4150 is based on the Polaris 11 or 21 chip and offers 896 shaders like the older AMD Radeon RX 460. Due to the higher clock speed compared to the Radeon Pro 400 GPUs in the MacBook Pro (800 - 900 MHz), we suspect the use of the newer Polaris 21 chip, that is manufactured in an improved 14nm (LPP+) process and allows the chip to be clocked higher. 

For more information on the features and specifications of the Polaris architecture, visit our in depth article here.

AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 Mobile is a professional workstation graphics card for laptops. It is based on the consumer Radeon RX 540X and therefore uses the same Polaris 12 chip (unverified). The exact clock speeds of the mobile version are not published, the desktop version however, seems to feature similar clock speeds as the RX 540X.

The AMD Radeon Pro (formerly known as FirePro) is the counterpart to the Quadro series from Nvidia and offers certified drivers for professional 3D applications (CAD and DCC).

For more information on the features and specifications of the Polaris architecture, visit our in depth article here.