Quadro M3000M vs FirePro W7100

Place in performance ranking	331	343
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.62	2.43
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	Tonga	GM204
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	12 August 2014 (9 years ago)	2 October 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$466	$981

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro W7100 has 131% better value for money than M3000M.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	1,024
Core clock speed	920 MHz	1050 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	400 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	103.0	67.20
Floating-point performance	3,297 gflops	2,150 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro W7100 and Quadro M3000M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	160 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Display Port	no data	1.2
StereoOutput3D	1	no data
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data
HD сomponent video output	1	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus	no data	+
3D Vision Pro	no data	+
Mosaic	no data	+
nView Display Management	no data	+
Optimus	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12
Shader Model	6.3	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	+
CUDA	no data	5.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro W7100 15.00
+4.8%

M3000M 14.31

FirePro W7100 outperforms Quadro M3000M by 5% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro W7100 5794
+4.8%

M3000M 5526

FirePro W7100 outperforms Quadro M3000M by 5% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

FirePro W7100 24849
+54.1%

M3000M 16127

FirePro W7100 outperforms Quadro M3000M by 54% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.