NVIDIA Quadro P3000 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P3000 and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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 X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P3000

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1088 MHz vs 650 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 90 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
43.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6627 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	1088 MHz vs 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6627 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 446

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	466 vs 446

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P3000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6627

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

446

466

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P3000	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	6627	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	446	466
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 X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	R500
Code name	N17E-Q1	R580+
Launch date	11 January 2017	10 September 2006
Place in performance rating	382	328
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1215 MHz
Core clock speed	1088 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Texture fill rate		10.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count		384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Port	1.4
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Shader Model	5.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	168 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	2000 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
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin