Quadro 3000M vs GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM Quadro 3000M and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro 3000M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro 3000M
432
GRID M6 8Q
+413%
2218
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro Mobile
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
625 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
5
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
18.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
432.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
36.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
100W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GM204
N12E-Q1-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
