Quadro RTX 4000 — Benchmarks & Specs
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Bottom line: how fast is the Quadro RTX 4000?
At 1440p (High), the Quadro RTX 4000 averages 120 fps in Horizon Forbidden West, per cputronic.com. For local LLM inference it generates 189.0 tokens/sec running llama3.2:1b at q4_K_M under llama.cpp, per LocalScore.ai. In Geekbench 5 OpenCL it scores 144,947 points, per Geekbench Browser (via technical.city).
Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.
The Quadro RTX 4000 is a graphics card from the Ada Lovelace family from NVIDIA. Data on this page draws on 3+ Amazon listings, 10 synthetic benchmark results, 12 community AI inference reports, 9 measured game frame-rate results, aggregated from public benchmark databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench) and the LocalLLaMA community. Read this page when shopping the Quadro RTX 4000, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, productivity benchmarks, or local LLM inference).
Gaming Performance (measured FPS)
Average and 1% low frame rates by game, resolution, and quality preset. Bars are scaled against the fastest result on this page.
| Game | Resolution | Settings | Relative | Avg FPS | 1% low | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counter-Strike 2 | 4K | Ultra | 240 fps | — | cputronic.com 2025-04-01 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 4K | Ultra | 240 fps | — | CpuTronic 2024-06-01 | |
| Horizon Forbidden West | 1440p | High | 120 fps | — | cputronic.com 2025-04-01 | |
| Horizon Forbidden West | 1440p | High | 120 fps | — | CpuTronic 2024-06-01 | |
| Alan Wake 2 | 1440p | RT Ultra RT on | 94 fps | — | CpuTronic 2024-06-01 | |
| Alan Wake 2 | 1440p | RT Ultra RT on | 94 fps | — | cputronic.com 2025-04-01 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4K | RT Overdrive RT on DLSS Quality | 68 fps | — | CpuTronic 2024-06-01 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4K | RT Overdrive RT on | 24 fps | — | CpuTronic 2024-06-01 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4K | Ultra | 24 fps | — | cputronic.com 2025-04-01 |
AI Inference Performance
Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.
| Model | Quantization | Relative | Tokens/sec | VRAM used | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| llama3.2:1b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 189.0 tok/s | — | LocalScore.ai 2025-01-01 | |
| llama2:7b | q4_0 llama.cpp | 61.8 tok/s | — | llama.cpp GitHub Discussions #15013 2025-08-07 | |
| llama3:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 58.6 tok/s | — | GitHub: XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference 2024-05-01 | |
| llama3:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 58.6 tok/s | — | XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub) 2024-05-01 | |
| llama3:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 58.6 tok/s | — | GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub) 2024-05-01 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 53.5 tok/s | — | localscore.ai 2025-01-01 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 53.5 tok/s | — | LocalScore.ai 2024-12-01 | |
| qwen3:235b | Q8 llama.cpp | 50.0 tok/s | — | LocalLLaMA 2026-03-28 | |
| qwen3:0.6b | — ollama | 47.1 tok/s | — | LocalLLaMA 2026-04-15 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 44.4 tok/s | — | LocalScore.ai 2025-01-01 | |
| qwen2.5:14b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 30.0 tok/s | — | localscore.ai 2025-01-01 | |
| qwen2.5:14b | q4_K_M ollama | 30.0 tok/s | — | LocalScore.ai 2024-12-01 |
Synthetic Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bars are scaled within each benchmark family (multi-thread, single-thread, etc.) so you can compare like-with-like at a glance.
| Benchmark | Relative | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 5 OpenCL | 144,947 points | Geekbench Browser (via technical.city) 2024-06-01 | |
| Geekbench 5 Vulkan | 126,474 points | Geekbench Browser (via technical.city) 2024-06-01 | |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 23,674 points | PassMark Software 2026-05-06 | |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 14,854 pts | PassMark 2026-04-20 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,340 points | topcpu.net (aggregated 3DMark user submissions) 2026-05-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,340 points | topcpu.net (3DMark database) 2024-01-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,340 points | TopCPU.net (3DMark aggregated database) 2024-01-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,340 points | topcpu.net (aggregated from 3DMark database) 2023-08-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 6,708 points | topcpu.net (aggregated 3DMark user submissions) 2026-05-01 | |
| Blender GPU Cycles | 5,293 points | cputronic.com 2025-04-01 |
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