NVIDIA Quadro 3000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 3000M and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 5.6x more texture fill rate: 18 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • 30x more pipelines: 240 vs 8
  • 33.8x better floating-point performance: 432.0 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 9.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 995 vs 105
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 312 vs 124
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 February 2011 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 18 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 240 vs 8
Floating-point performance 432.0 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 995 vs 105
PassMark - G2D Mark 312 vs 124
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 543 vs 542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 543 vs 542

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

  • 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
995
105
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
312
124
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
543
542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
543
542
Name NVIDIA Quadro 3000M NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark 995 105
PassMark - G2D Mark 312 124
Geekbench - OpenCL 3750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 325.007
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 27.961
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 543 542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 543 542

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 3000M NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF104 G86
Launch date 22 February 2011 9 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $398.96
Place in performance rating 1498 1501
Price now $199.95
Type Mobile workstation Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 7.98

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 432.0 gflops 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 240 8
Texture fill rate 18 GTexel / s 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 80.0 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3 / GDDR2
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0