NVIDIA Quadro 3000M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 3000M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
15x more pipelines: 240 vs 2x 8
9.6x better floating-point performance: 432.0 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Around 79% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
8.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 995 vs 121
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 312 vs 120

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 20 January 2009
Pipelines	240 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	432.0 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	995 vs 121
PassMark - G2D Mark	312 vs 120

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 36% higher texture fill rate: 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 18 GTexel / s
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 658 vs 543
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 658 vs 543

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 18 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	658 vs 543
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	658 vs 543

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

995

121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

312

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

543

658

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

543

658

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	995	121
PassMark - G2D Mark	312	120
Geekbench - OpenCL	3764
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	325.007
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	27.961
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	543	658
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	543	658

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF104	G98
Launch date	22 February 2011	20 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$398.96	$131.43
Place in performance rating	1499	1501
Price now	$199.95	$80.99
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	7.98	1.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	432.0 gflops	2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	240	2x 8
Texture fill rate	18 GTexel / s	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0