NVIDIA Quadro M3000M vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M3000M and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 650 MHz
6.5x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz
36.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5526 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 August 2015 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5526 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 402

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	466 vs 402

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M3000M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5526

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

402

466

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M3000M	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	5526	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	402	466
Geekbench - OpenCL	16049
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	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	R500
Code name	GM204	R580+
Launch date	18 August 2015	10 September 2006
Place in performance rating	495	328
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,150 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1,024
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Port	1.2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Shader Model	5.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus