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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

84.13 points

102.79 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

4121 points

11144 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3037 points

4900 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3517 points

11550 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4645 points

10627 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3739 points

4900 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6238 points

11127 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

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

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.