Quadro M3000 SE vs FirePro D500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking427not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTahitiGM204
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)2 October 2016 (8 years ago)

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 cores15361024
Core clock speed725 MHz540 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6034.56
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS1.106 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs9664

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s160.4 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 January 2014 2 October 2016
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 75 Watt

M3000 SE has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 265.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D500 and Quadro M3000 SE. We've got no test results to judge.


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