Quadro FX 3000: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 3000 sales 22 July 2003 at a recommended price of $203 . This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 27.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. 1x Molex power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 3000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Rankine (2003−2005) | |
GPU code name | NV35 | |
Market segment | Workstation | |
Release date | 22 July 2003 (21 year ago) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $203 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 3000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 3000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Core clock speed | 400 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 135 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
Texture fill rate | 3.200 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 3000 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 | AGP 8x | |
Width | 2-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x Molex |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 3000: 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 | DDR | |
Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 850 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 27.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 3000. 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 | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro FX 3000, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 9.0a | |
OpenGL | 1.5 (2.1) | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | N/A | |
Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 3000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
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.
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro FX 3000 according to our statistics.