nvidia 8400 GS vs. nvidia Quadro 135

I was wondering if anyone had information on how these cards compare with one another. I read that they may be equivalents but I was wondering if anyone had more concrete info. Thanks

 

Yeah, they are equivalent chips, though the 135m may be clocked slightly lower. Performance should be roughly equal.

 

preciate it.

I've been through a month's worth of hassle with my vostro 1400 and Dell Corporate is giving me a call tomorrow, so I may have the option of a d630 instead of the 1400. I'm assuming that it's a better laptop than the Vostro 1400.

 

It's thinner/lighter and better built. Though it lacks some of the multimedia features, I personally would choose the D630 over the 1400.

 

It's built...for sure. I'd take the D630 over the Vostro 1400 anyday Although both are awesome laptops.

 

Well I found the answer I was looking for in awhile...I wanted to know what type of vram was used in the Quadro 135m...

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/video/P135658/en/spec.htm

It is the GDDR3 (and I hope that is correct).

 

VRAM type is not nearly as important on the 8400M cards as it is on the 8600m cards. Anyhow, I believe all current quadro cards come with GDDR3 vram.

 

From further research on Dell's site...which I hope is "correct information", it seems that the workstation Quadro FX 360M is GDDR2?

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/video/S157030/en/spec.htm

Now I'm just wondering why the 135m has GDDR3 and the 360m uses GDDR2 (if the above is correct?)

Odin, can you also explain what you said above? I'm not well versed with the graphics card..Apologies to go off-topic. I think either card will perform fine (8400m gs and the 135m)

 

VRAM type has become a huge deal for the 8600M cards, because those cards are extremely memory bandwith limited. That means they have alot of power to push information, but a relatively small channel to push that information through. However the 8400M cards are less powerful, and therefore require less bandwith. Thus the type of VRAM is not nearly as important.

I suppose it's possible that Dell uses DDR2 VRAM on the FX 360m, though nVidia specs it at a memory clockspeed of 600MHz, which seems more likely to be GDDR3 memory. Either way, the performance difference will be negligible.