NVIDIA Quadro M3000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M3000M and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
42.7x more pipelines: 1,024 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
54.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5637 vs 104
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 417 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 August 2015 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	1,024 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5637 vs 104
PassMark - G2D Mark	417 vs 320

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

3x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5637

104

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

417

320

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	5637	104
PassMark - G2D Mark	417	320
Geekbench - OpenCL	16588
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 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GM204	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	18 August 2015	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	504	508
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1050 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,150 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1,024	24
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Display Port	1.2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5
Shader Model	5.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	160 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	1
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus