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NVIDIA Quadro M3000M vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro M3000M and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1537MHz
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Quadro M3000M
2.15 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Mobile +192%
6.296 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Quadro M3000M
2016
RTX A500 Mobile +49%
3023
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Quadro M3000M
941
RTX A500 Mobile +70%
1604

Graphics Card

Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2022
Quadro Mobile
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
832 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
67.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W
TDP
30W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM204
GPU Name
GA107S
N16E-Q1-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
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