Quadro M3000M and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison
Quadro M3000M
Radeon HD 8950 OEM
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Tahiti
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
October 2015
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,150 gflops
3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1,024
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
67.20
103.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Port
1.2
-
HDMI
-
+
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
+
-