Quadro4 380 XGL vs Quadro Plex 2100 D4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1496
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameG92NV18 A4
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2008 (16 years ago)12 November 2002 (22 years ago)

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 cores128no data
Core clock speed500 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors754 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)640 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.001.100
Floating-point processing power0.32 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs644

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 x16AGP 8x
Length522 mmno data
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz256 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s8.192 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)8.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2008 12 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 150 nm

Plex 2100 D4 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 130.8% more advanced lithography process.

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