Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

240

480

Core clock speed

450 MHz

725 MHz

Transistor count

1,950 million

716 million

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

18.00

17.40

Floating-point performance

432.0 gflops

696.0 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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

large

medium sized

Bus support

no data

n/a

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

MXM-A (3.0)

Form factor

no data

MXM-A

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2500 MHz

3600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

57 GB/s

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

Quadro 3000M 5.18

FirePro M5950 6.06 +17%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

Quadro 3000M 1539 +14%

FirePro M5950 1350

3DMark Vantage Performance

Quadro 3000M 7941 +26.9%

FirePro M5950 6257

Passmark

Quadro 3000M 1124

FirePro M5950 1314 +16.9%

Rendering quality tests

GFXBench render quality

4541 −0.1%

4546 +0.1%

GFXBench high precision render quality

4541 −0.1%

4546 +0.1%

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

28 Mh/s −139.3%

67 Mh/s +139.3%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950 are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Somewhat newer (22 February 2011 vs 4 January 2011)

Wider memory bus (256 vs 128 bit)

Higher memory bandwidth (80 vs 57 GB/s)

OpenGl 4.1

FP32

Advantages of AMD FirePro M5950

17% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (480 vs 240)

Less power hungry (35 vs 75 watts)

OpenCL 1.1

Type A MXM

So, Quadro 3000M or FirePro M5950?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, Technical City recommends AMD FirePro M5950.

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