NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 399.95

$ 120.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

15% slightly better overall score

1094 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

28 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

Identical

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

269.47 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

15678 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

17348 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

17520 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16504 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16744 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

75 W

160% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

0.77% slightly higher pixel rate

33.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

101% significantly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

49% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

257th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 680 vs Quadro M3000M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 GPU is faster than the Quadro M3000M in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro M3000M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the Quadro M3000M.