GeForce 405 OEM vs Quadro 400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1263not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.82no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT216GT216
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 April 2011 (13 years ago)3 September 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 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 cores4824
Core clock speed450 MHz475 MHz
Number of transistors486 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2005.700
Floating-point processing power0.108 TFLOPS0.0528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1612

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 2.0 x16
Length163 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed770 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.32 GB/s12.8 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, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.21.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 April 2011 3 September 2010
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 25 Watt

Quadro 400 has an age advantage of 7 months.

405 OEM, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 28% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 400 and GeForce 405 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 400 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 405 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 400
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