NVIDIA Quadro P3000 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P3000 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro P3000

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P3000

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1088 MHz vs 600 MHz
4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 200 Watt
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
10.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6636 vs 628
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 444 vs 397

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 12 December 2007
Core clock speed	1088 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6636 vs 628
PassMark - G2D Mark	444 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P3000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6636

628

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

444

397

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P3000	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	6636	628
PassMark - G2D Mark	444	397
Geekbench - OpenCL	25146
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9579
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9579
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3489

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P3000	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	N17E-Q1	R600
Launch date	11 January 2017	12 December 2007
Place in performance rating	382	379
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1215 MHz
Core clock speed	1088 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	1280	320
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	200 Watt
Floating-point performance		384.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		9.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Port	1.4
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Shader Model	5.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	168 GB / s	118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Stereo
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView
nView Display Management
Optimus
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin