NVIDIA started Quadro FX 3800M sales 20 December 2009. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 3800M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	928
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.09
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name	N10E-GLM4
Market segment	Mobile workstation
Release date	20 December 2009 (14 years ago)
Current price	$199	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro FX 3800M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 3800M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	128	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	675 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	754 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	43.20	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	422.4 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro FX 3800M's 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
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 3800M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 3800M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Quadro FX 3800M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 3800M. 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.

FX 3800M 1.51

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%

FX 3800M 585

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

FX 3800M 6779

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 3800M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Battlefield 5	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Battlefield 5	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Battlefield 5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

Relative performance

Overall Quadro FX 3800M performance compared to nearest competitors among mobile workstation video cards.

Quadro K610M 124.5

Quadro K510M 109.93

NVS 5400M 107.28

Quadro FX 3800M 100

Quadro 500M 97.35

Quadro 1000M 97.35

FirePro M5800 90.73

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 3800M is FirePro M5800, which is slower by 9% and lower by 39 positions in our ranking.