NVIDIA Quadro 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce G205M 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 G205M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
16x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1476 vs 92
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 294
3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 989
3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 989

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 November 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1476 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	382 vs 294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350 vs 989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350 vs 989

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

10.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 142 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1476

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

382

294

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3350

989

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3350

989

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1476	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	382	294
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	989
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350	989
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF100	MCP79MX
Launch date	2 November 2010	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199
Place in performance rating	1047	1048
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
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5