NVIDIA Quadro 3000M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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NVIDIA Quadro 3000M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM Quadro 3000M and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 3000M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro 3000M +1863%

0.432 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

Quadro 3000M

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Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

Quadro Mobile

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

8

40

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

18.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

432.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

36.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G98

N12E-Q1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

40W

-

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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