FirePro D700 vs Quadro M4000

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Quadro M4000 and FirePro D700, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Quadro M4000
2015
8 GB GDDR5, 120 Watt
17.32
+23.4%

M4000 outperforms D700 by a significant 23% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking316371
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.66no data
Power efficiency9.893.51
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGM204Tahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$791 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 cores16642048
Core clock speed773 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt274 Watt
Texture fill rate80.39108.8
Floating-point processing power2.573 TFLOPS3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs104128

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm279 mm
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1370 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 192 GB/s263.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
High-Performance Video I/O6+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.2-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 17.32 14.03
Recency 29 June 2015 18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 274 Watt

Quadro M4000 has a 23.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 128.3% lower power consumption.

The Quadro M4000 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D700 in performance tests.


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