NVIDIA Quadro 400 vs NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 400 and NVIDIA GeForce G102M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 400

NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 400

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
3.9x more memory clock speed: 1540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1103 vs 890
Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1103 vs 890

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 April 2011 vs 8 January 2009
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed	1540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1103 vs 890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1103 vs 890

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G102M

2.2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 32 Watt
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 148

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 32 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 148

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G102M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1103

890

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1103

890

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 400	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
PassMark - G3D Mark	148	168
PassMark - G2D Mark	59	59
Geekbench - OpenCL	4630
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1103	890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1103	890

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 400	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT216	MCP79MX
Launch date	5 April 2011	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$169
Place in performance rating	1614	1617
Price now	$145.55
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	2.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	108 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	7.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	210 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		48
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	VGAHDMIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	163 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 1.0
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.32 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1540 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2
Technologies
CUDA
Power management		8.0