Quadro M3000 SE vs FirePro W5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking571not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.57no data
Power efficiency7.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code namePitcairnGM204
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)2 October 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores7681024
Core clock speed825 MHz540 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate39.6034.56
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPS1.106 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs4864

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length183 mmno data
Width1-slotMXM Module
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s160.4 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 DisplayPortNo outputs
DisplayPort count2no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2012 2 October 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB

M3000 SE has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5000 and Quadro M3000 SE. We've got no test results to judge.

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