FirePro S4000X vs Quadro M3000 SE

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGM204Venus
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date2 October 2016 (8 years ago)7 August 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024640
Core clock speed540 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speedno data775 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate34.5631.00
Floating-point processing power1.106 TFLOPS0.992 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6440

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
WidthMXM Moduleno data
Form factorno dataMXM-A
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 GB/s72 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Dual-link DVI support-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2016 7 August 2014
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 45 Watt

M3000 SE has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

S4000X, on the other hand, has 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M3000 SE and FirePro S4000X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M3000 SE is a workstation card while FirePro S4000X is a mobile workstation one.


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