NVIDIA Quadro 3000M vs AMD FirePro M5950
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
Conclusion
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General info
Comparison of Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950 architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
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
715 Million
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
18 GTexel / s
17.4 GTexel / s
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
n/d
n / a
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Form factor
n/d
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
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
625 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB / s
57 GB / s
Shared memory
-
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950.
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
API support
APIs supported by Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
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
2.51 +49.4%
FirePro M5950
1.68
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
1463 +11.3%
FirePro M5950
1314
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
49.4% faster in synthetic tests
Wider memory bus (256 vs 128 bit)
Higher memory bandwidth (80 vs 57 GB/s)
OpenGl 4.1
FP32
Advantages of AMD FirePro M5950
Somewhat newer (13 April 2011 vs 22 February 2011)
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 NVIDIA Quadro 3000M.
Should you still have questions on choice between Quadro 3000M and FirePro M5950, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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