NVIDIA GeForce 840A vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840A and NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 7.5x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 229x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1145 vs 5
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 245 vs 181
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 March 2014 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 17.98 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1145 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 245 vs 181

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1145
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
245
181
Name NVIDIA GeForce 840A NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark 1145 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 245 181
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 Quadro4 980 XGL

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Kelvin
Code name GM108 NV28 A2
Launch date 17 March 2014 12 November 2002
Place in performance rating 967 964
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz
Core clock speed 1029 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 17.98 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt
Transistor count 36 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 None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 8.1
OpenGL 4.6 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 16.02 GB / s 10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz 650 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR