Mobile workstation on the go: PNY PREVAILPRO P4000 in test

Today's PREVAILPRO P4000 is marketed by PNY as a mobile workstation and therefore also sorts itself in the relevant price segment above 4500 Euros and will be available directly in Germany in the foreseeable future.... Opening your notebook What would a notebook review be without Tear Down? On the one hand, the manufacturer does not list all components in detail (e.g. we lacked the exact information about the memory and the installed SSD) and on the other hand needed... System setup What do you actually compare to a mobile workstation, which is actually a normal consumer notebook with additional integrated, mobile Quadro graphics? The built-in Intel Core i7-7700HQ does not support ECC memory and a... Let's combine both CPU workload and real-time 3D graphics output. The emphasis is very balanced on both, as can be seen from the results, in which the actually nominally faster Quadro P4000 Max-Q all too often the afterlife... But we also don't want to be unfair and now we're still questioning what would happen if the Quadro P4000 Max-Q were to operate almost unchecked in the notebook. Then the dedicated Quadro P2000 has in part clearly changed the afterlife. Power consumption The power consumption differs very significantly during mains and battery operation. However, due to the lack of real modification options on the device, we can only measure primarily between the socket and the power supply on the primary side, we remain... Temperatures and clock rates The actual performance does not result from the ideal data of the specifications, but on what can be achieved in the real and warmed-up state of the CPU and GPU. That this is also the... PNY has done almost everything right with the PREVAILPRO P4000 Max-Q. The mobile Quadro P4000 in the Max-Q design harmonizes perfectly with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ. It is true that Kaby Lake as an architecture is no longer the very last s...

But we also don't want to be unfair and now we're still questioning what would happen if the Quadro P4000 Max-Q were to operate almost unchecked in the notebook. Then the dedicated Quadro P2000 is clearly behind in some cases.

If you let a finished, rather complex scene rotate around itself in Maya 2017, the mail goes off and the mobile quadro lies exactly between the two dedicated maps of the PC.

Also in the 3ds Max you can see that the mobile Quadro P4000 Max-Q tends more towards the dedicated Quadro P4000, because the CPU load is even lower than in Maya 2017.

The DirectX part in AutoCAD is not a challenge for the graphics as such, which you can see from the pretty good result of the Intel graphics. Here, the one thread with up to 80% CPU load pushes itself somewhat negatively into the foreground of the action.

The OpenGL benchmark of Cinebench R15 is even more extreme, whereby we for once identify the drivers as "guilty", because this time it will probably not be the CPU. We have already written about "dead-optimized" standard benchmarks and it is once again a reason to omit such applications better. In the end, you only cheat on everyone involved, including your own person.

Intermediate conclusion

The graphics performance of the Quadro P4000 Max-Q mobile is appropriate, but stands and falls with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ used. If the CPU is too strong in the game, the "normal" Intel Core i7-7700T manages to launch even a nominally weaker Quadro P2000 past the mobile graphics and forward with a gesture of nonchalance. But to be fair, a notebook is not a PC and the clocks are always ticking a little differently.

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