NVIDIA Quadro K3100M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

278 points
584 points
110% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
13 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
11 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
8 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

84.13 points
102.79 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

4121 points
11144 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3037 points
4900 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3517 points
11550 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4645 points
10627 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3739 points
4900 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6238 points
11127 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3389 points
9592 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

680 MHz
1020 MHz
49% significantly higher core clock speed

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
Identical
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

11.3 Gigapixels/s
17.36 Gigapixels/s
53% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.18 Gigatexels/s
4% slightly higher texture rate
43.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
20% slightly more shading units
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
60% significantly more texture mapping units
40

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

387th of 586
311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July
2015 February

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 GTX 860M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 860M GPU is faster than the Quadro K3100M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 860M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, both the Quadro K3100M and the GeForce GTX 860M have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 860M is faster than the Quadro K3100M.

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