T400 vs Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated466
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.77
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG84TU117
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date27 September 2008 (16 years ago)6 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 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 cores32384
Core clock speed520 MHz420 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors289 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)42 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate8.32034.20
Floating-point processing power0.06656 TFLOPS1.094 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1624

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 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth20.8 GB/s80 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video3x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA1.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2008 6 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 42 Watt 30 Watt

T400 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 40% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition and T400. We've got no test results to judge.


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