NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 606 MHz vs 375 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 4.85 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 142 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 58% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 121 vs 101
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 106 vs 78

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 April 2004
Core clock speed	606 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 142 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	121 vs 101
PassMark - G2D Mark	106 vs 78

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

121

101

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
PassMark - G3D Mark	121	101
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	78
Geekbench - OpenCL	2851

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT218	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 April 2004
Place in performance rating	1493	1496
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,199
Technical info
Core clock speed	606 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	46.98 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s	4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	142 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		2x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA