NVIDIA Quadro 400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 400 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 400

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 400

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 40 Watt
Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 148 vs 99
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1103 vs 800
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1103 vs 800

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 April 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	148 vs 99
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1103 vs 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1103 vs 800

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 72 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	72 vs 59

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1103

800

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1103

800

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 400	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G3D Mark	148	99
PassMark - G2D Mark	59	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	4630
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1103	800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1103	800

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 400	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT216	MCP7A
Launch date	5 April 2011	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$169
Place in performance rating	1608	1605
Price now	$145.55
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	2.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	108 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	7.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	163 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.32 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1540 MHz
Memory type	DDR3