Quadro M2000: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro M2000 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.55% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro M2000 sales 8 April 2016 at a recommended price of $437.75. This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of 128-bit memory clocked at 1.65 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 106 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a 1-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 201 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro M2000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 477 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 1.41 | |
| Power efficiency | 9.66 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM206 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 8 April 2016 (9 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $437.75 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Quadro M2000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro M2000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 768 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 796 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1163 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 2,940 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 55.82 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.786 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro M2000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 201 mm | |
| Width | 1" (2.5 cm) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro M2000: 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 | 128 Bit | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1653 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 106 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro M2000. 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 | 4x DisplayPort | |
| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro M2000. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| 3D Vision Pro | + | |
| Mosaic | + | |
| nView Desktop Management | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro M2000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro M2000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
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.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 CUDA
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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.
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.
Send your test results of Quadro M2000.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro M2000 is FirePro D500, which is faster by 3% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended processors
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