CMP 40HX vs Quadro4 200 NVS

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated306
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data19.10
Power efficiencyno data6.62
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV17 A3TU106
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 December 2003 (20 years ago)25 February 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

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 data2304
Core clock speed250 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors29 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000237.6
Floating-point processing powerno data7.603 TFLOPS
ROPs264
TMUs4144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 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 Connectors1x LFH60No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 25 February 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 185 Watt

Quadro4 200 NVS has 1581.8% lower power consumption.

CMP 40HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 17 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 200 NVS and CMP 40HX. We've got no test results to judge.


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