NVIDIA Quadro K3100M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 2974.00
$ 349.95
$ 2624.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

278 points
30% slightly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

84.13 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

4121 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3037 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2320 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3517 points
4243 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4645 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3739 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6238 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3389 points
4286 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

102.4 GB/s
27% slightly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
64 W
17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

11.3 Gigapixels/s
42% slightly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.18 Gigatexels/s
42% slightly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
100% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
100% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 586
421st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Quadro K3100M vs GeForce GT 740 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740 beats the Quadro K3100M in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Quadro K3100M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740 over the Quadro K3100M.

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