Quadro 3000M vs 2000

Place in performance ranking	798	777
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.38	0.14
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF106	Fermi
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	24 December 2010 (13 years ago)	22 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	$398.96
Current price	$141 (0.2x MSRP)	$447 (1.1x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro 2000 has 171% better value for money than Quadro 3000M.

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	192	240
Core clock speed	625 MHz	450 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	62 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.00	18.00
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	432.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro 2000 and Quadro 3000M 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
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	178 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz	625 MHz
Memory bandwidth	41.6 GB/s	80 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

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	2.1

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.

Quadro 2000 2.45

Quadro 3000M 2.63
+7.3%

3000M outperforms 2000 by 7% based on our aggregated 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%

Quadro 2000 948

Quadro 3000M 1019
+7.5%

3000M outperforms 2000 by 7% 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%

Quadro 2000 3902
+4.9%

Quadro 3000M 3721

2000 outperforms 3000M by 5% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro 2000 12

Quadro 3000M 13
+8.3%

3000M outperforms 2000 by 8% in Octane Render OctaneBench.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

45−50

−13.3%

51
+13.3%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.45	2.63
Recency	24 December 2010	22 February 2011
Cost	$599	$398.96
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	62 Watt	75 Watt