NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M40 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GRID M40

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M40

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 675 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
2.7x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Launch date	18 May 2016 vs 14 August 2008
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M40
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Name	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	576.664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	87.629
PassMark - G3D Mark		575
PassMark - G2D Mark		42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3272

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Tesla
Code name	GM107	G92
Launch date	18 May 2016	14 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1418	1413
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	754 million
Floating-point performance		422.4 gflops
Pipelines		128
Texture fill rate		43.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	2000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
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