FirePro M3100 vs Quadro 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking706not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.18no data
Power efficiency1.85no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF100Mars
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date2 November 2010 (14 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores256384
Core clock speed475 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speedno data700 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)142 Wattno data
Texture fill rate15.2016.80
Floating-point processing power0.4864 TFLOPSno data
ROPs328
TMUs3224

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed702 MHz2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth89.86 GB/s32 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

Quadro 4000 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

FirePro M3100, on the other hand, has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000 and FirePro M3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 4000 is a workstation card while FirePro M3100 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 4000
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