NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 26% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 460 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
3.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 42 Watt
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 October 2008 vs 12 September 2007
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 460 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 42 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 36

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700

Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 101
Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1252 vs 1117
Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1252 vs 1117

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	160 vs 101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1252 vs 1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1252 vs 1117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

101

160

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1252

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1252

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
PassMark - G3D Mark	101	160
PassMark - G2D Mark	55	36
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117	1252
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117	1252

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	C79MX	G84
Launch date	15 October 2008	12 September 2007
Place in performance rating	1636	1630
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$89.99
Value for money (0-100)		2.77
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	460 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	42 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		58.88 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		7.36 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2