Quadro T2000 Max-Q vs Tegra 3

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated303
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data31.14
ArchitectureVLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTegra 3TU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date9 November 2011 (13 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed416 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed520 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors10 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate4.160103.7
Floating-point processing powerno data3.318 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs864

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 GB/s
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLES 2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 November 2011 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 40 Watt

Tegra 3 has 100% lower power consumption.

T2000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tegra 3 and Quadro T2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tegra 3 is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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