NVIDIA Quadro M3000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M3000M and NVIDIA GeForce 720A 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 938 MHz
  • 4.5x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
  • 10.7x more pipelines: 1,024 vs 96
  • 6x better floating-point performance: 2,150 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • 9.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5608 vs 614
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 304
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 August 2015 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed 1050 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1,024 vs 96
Floating-point performance 2,150 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5608 vs 614
PassMark - G2D Mark 411 vs 304

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5608
614
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
411
304
Name NVIDIA Quadro M3000M NVIDIA GeForce 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark 5608 614
PassMark - G2D Mark 411 304
Geekbench - OpenCL 16569
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 NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name GM204 GF117
Launch date 18 August 2015 1 July 2014
Place in performance rating 508 505
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1050 MHz 938 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,150 gflops 360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1,024 96
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s 15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Display Port 1.2

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Shader Model 5.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus