Tesla K20Xm vs Quadro M3000 SE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated523
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.10
Power efficiencyno data2.30
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGM204GK110
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date2 October 2016 (8 years ago)12 November 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$7,699

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 cores10242688
Core clock speed540 MHz732 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt235 Watt
Texture fill rate34.56164.0
Floating-point processing power1.106 TFLOPS3.935 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs64224

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
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthMXM Module2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1300 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 GB/s249.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA5.23.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2016 12 November 2012
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 235 Watt

M3000 SE has an age advantage of 3 years, and 213.3% lower power consumption.

Tesla K20Xm, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M3000 SE and Tesla K20Xm. We've got no test results to judge.


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