Quadro RTX 5000 vs Quadro FX 3400

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated96
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data14.34
Power efficiencyno data12.47
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV45TU104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date28 June 2004 (20 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,299

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 coresno data3072
Core clock speed350 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1815 MHz
Number of transistors222 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)101 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate5.600348.5
Floating-point processing powerno data11.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs16192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed450 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s448.0 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-Video4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.5
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2004 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 101 Watt 230 Watt

FX 3400 has 127.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3400 and Quadro RTX 5000. We've got no test results to judge.


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