Radeon 780M vs Quadro P3000 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated302
Place by popularitynot in top-10049
Power efficiencyno data83.73
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameN17E-Q1 Max-QPhoenix
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 September 2017 (7 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores1280768
Core clock speed1075 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1240 MHz2700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed7008 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2017 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 16 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P3000 Max-Q and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P3000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 780M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Max-Q
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