Quadro P400: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.23% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro P400 sales 7 February 2017 at a recommended price of $119.99 . This is a Pascal architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32.06 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro P400: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 639 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.79 | |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 7 February 2017 (7 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $119.99 | |
| Current price | $73 (0.6x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
Quadro P400's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro P400's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 256 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1228 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1252 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 3,300 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 30 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 20.03 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 679.9 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro P400 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 145 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro P400: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 4008 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32.06 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro P400. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 3x mini-DisplayPort |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro P400, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro P400. 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.
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%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro P400 is FirePro W600, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.
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