FirePro M3100 vs Quadro P500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	728	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	16.69	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GP108	Mars
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	5 January 2018 (7 years ago)	no data

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 cores	256	384
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	1518 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	1,800 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	24.29	16.80
Floating-point processing power	0.7772 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	16	24

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB/s	32 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.170
CUDA	6.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm

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