NVIDIA Quadro M3000M vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M3000M and AMD Radeon HD 7690M 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 M3000M

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 725 MHz
3.9x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 1,024 vs 480
3.1x better floating-point performance: 2,150 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
6.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5594 vs 909
13.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 16641 vs 1242

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 August 2015 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1,024 vs 480
Floating-point performance	2,150 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5594 vs 909
Geekbench - OpenCL	16641 vs 1242

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 454 vs 413

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	454 vs 413

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M3000M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5594

909

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

413

454

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

16641

1242

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M3000M	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G3D Mark	5594	909
PassMark - G2D Mark	413	454
Geekbench - OpenCL	16641	1242
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	82.563
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1266.506
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	70.779
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	252.607
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7779
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7779
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M3000M	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Thames
Launch date	18 August 2015	25 December 2011
Place in performance rating	504	505
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,150 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1,024	480
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Boost clock speed		725 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Display Port	1.2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Shader Model	5.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus