Quadro 400 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro 400 vs GeForce 8500 GT
Quadro 400
152
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Quadro 400
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GT216
G86
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
450 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
108 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
16
Power consumption (TDP)
32 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1540 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.32 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A