
Quadro M3000M and FirePro D500 - video card comparison
Quadro M3000M
FirePro D500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Tahiti
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Workstation
Release date
October 2015
January 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,150 gflops
2,227 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1,024
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
274 Watt
Texture fill rate
67.20
69.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
243.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
12 (11_1)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-