NVIDIA GeForce 8400 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8400 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 160 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 December 2007 vs 1 June 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	160 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 540 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 32 vs 8
3.8x better floating-point performance: 80 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 231 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 8
Floating-point performance	80 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	231 vs 81

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8400
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

231

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8400	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
PassMark - G3D Mark	81	231
PassMark - G2D Mark	160	89
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	733

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8400	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	G84
Launch date	4 December 2007	1 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$69.78	$149.90
Place in performance rating	1388	1391
Price now	$69.78	$149.90
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	1.87	1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8	32
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-HE
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory		0