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).

NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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: 5597 vs 614
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 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	5597 vs 614
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 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

5597

614

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

304

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark	5597	614
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	304
Geekbench - OpenCL	16559
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	507	504
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