NVIDIA Quadro K3000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K3000M and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 K3000M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 654 MHz vs 500 MHz
7.8x more texture fill rate: 31.39 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
36x more pipelines: 576 vs 16
18.8x better floating-point performance: 753.4 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
13.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1641 vs 122
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 335 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	654 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	31.39 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	576 vs 16
Floating-point performance	753.4 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1641 vs 122
PassMark - G2D Mark	335 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1641

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

335

172

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	1641	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	335	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	4221
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	14.45
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	403.983
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.992
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	24.266
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2527
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2527
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK104	G96
Launch date	1 June 2012	3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$155
Place in performance rating	1006	1009
Price now	$155
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	13.57
Technical info
Core clock speed	654 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	753.4 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	576	16
Texture fill rate	31.39 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0