NVIDIA GeForce 840A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 840A

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840A

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 400 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 850 MHz
16.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1145 vs 69
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 245 vs 178

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 22 July 2003
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1145 vs 69
PassMark - G2D Mark	245 vs 178

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1145

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

245

178

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 840A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1145	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	245	178
Geekbench - OpenCL	5596
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2314
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3117

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 840A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rankine
Code name	GM108	NV35
Launch date	17 March 2014	22 July 2003
Place in performance rating	966	963
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$203
Price now		$166.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count		135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR