Quadro FX 3400 vs Quadro FX 3800

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking866not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.08no data
Power efficiency1.36no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BNV45
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)28 June 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$799 no data

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 cores192no data
Core clock speed600 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million222 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt101 Watt
Texture fill rate38.405.600
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1616
TMUs6416

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
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s28.8 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 28 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 101 Watt

FX 3800 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

FX 3400, on the other hand, has 6.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3800 and Quadro FX 3400. We've got no test results to judge.


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