Quadro 3000M and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro 3000M

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Fermi

Tahiti

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

February 2011

January 2013

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

925 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

432.0 gflops

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

18.00

103.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

625 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

2.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131