Quadro FX 4400 vs Quadro 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking706not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.18no data
Power efficiency1.85no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGF100NV45
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date2 November 2010 (14 years ago)28 July 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 $2,399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores256no data
Core clock speed475 MHz375 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million222 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)142 Watt83 Watt
Texture fill rate15.204.500
Floating-point processing power0.4864 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3212
TMUs3212

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 1.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed702 MHz525 MHz
Memory bandwidth89.86 GB/s33.6 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, 2x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 November 2010 28 July 2005
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 142 Watt 83 Watt

Quadro 4000 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

FX 4400, on the other hand, has 71.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000 and Quadro FX 4400. We've got no test results to judge.


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