Quadro NVS 300M vs Quadro 400

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGT216G73
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date5 April 2011 (13 years ago)24 May 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

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 cores4813
Core clock speed450 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data450 MHz
Number of transistors486 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt16 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2002.000
Floating-point processing power0.108 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs164

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length163 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed770 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.32 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 April 2011 24 May 2006
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 16 Watt

Quadro 400 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

NVS 300M, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 400 and Quadro NVS 300M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 400 is a workstation card while Quadro NVS 300M is a mobile workstation one.


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