GeForce 605 OEM vs Quadro 400

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGT216GF119
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 April 2011 (13 years ago)2 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4848
Core clock speed450 MHz523 MHz
Number of transistors486 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2004.184
Floating-point processing power0.108 TFLOPS0.1004 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length163 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed770 MHz897 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.32 GB/s14.35 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.22.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 April 2011 2 April 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 25 Watt

605 OEM has an age advantage of 11 months, and 28% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 400 and GeForce 605 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 400 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 605 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 400
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