NVIDIA Quadro 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro 4000

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 41% higher texture fill rate: 15.2 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 1320 MHz
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1476 vs 258
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 November 2010 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1476 vs 258
PassMark - G2D Mark	382 vs 160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

3x lower typical power consumption: 48 Watt vs 142 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1476

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

382

160

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1476	258
PassMark - G2D Mark	382	160
Geekbench - OpenCL	5013
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	13.345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	306.122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.552
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.453
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	39.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF100	G71
Launch date	2 November 2010	9 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199
Place in performance rating	1047	1050
Price now	$141.66
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	17.08
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	256
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3