Quadro 4000M vs FirePro V5900

Place in performance ranking	703	689
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.15	0.97
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Cayman	Fermi
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (12 years ago)	22 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$449
Current price	$89	$118 (0.3x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V5900 has 19% better value for money than Quadro 4000M.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	336
Core clock speed	600 MHz	475 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.20	26.60
Floating-point performance	614.4 gflops	638.4 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro V5900 and Quadro 4000M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	230 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	80 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

1x DVI

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro V5900 3.26

Quadro 4000M 3.43
+5.2%

Quadro 4000M outperforms FirePro V5900 by 5% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro V5900 1263

Quadro 4000M 1328
+5.1%

Quadro 4000M outperforms FirePro V5900 by 5% in Passmark.