Quadro K3100M and Radeon HD 6850M - video card comparison
Quadro K3100M
Radeon HD 6850M
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N15E-Q1-A2
Granville Pro/LP
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
July 2013
January 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
706 MHz
575 / 675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,084 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
800
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
45.18
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-