Quadro M3000M and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
Quadro M3000M
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Saturn
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
October 2015
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,150 gflops
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1,024
768
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
67.20
51.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
12 (12_0)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-