NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 84% higher core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 400 MHz
11x more texture fill rate: 35.33 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 850 MHz
27.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1914 vs 69
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 423 vs 178

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 February 2012 vs 22 July 2003
Core clock speed	736 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	35.33 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3828 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1914 vs 69
PassMark - G2D Mark	423 vs 178

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1914

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

423

178

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1914	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	423	178
Geekbench - OpenCL	6235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	618.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	50.114
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF114	NV35
Launch date	20 February 2012	22 July 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$89.99	$203
Place in performance rating	967	971
Price now	$89.99	$166.60
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	28.95	0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	736 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	288
Texture fill rate	35.33 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	91.87 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3828 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR