NVIDIA Quadro K3100M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

640 points

130% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

10 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

10 FPS

6 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

89.74 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

4121 points

9734 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3517 points

10197 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4645 points

9939 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6238 points

9326 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3389 points

9178 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

680 MHz

937 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

102.4 GB/s

113% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

10 W

650% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

11.3 Gigapixels/s

16.61 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.18 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 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

166% 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

388th of 586

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2019 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 MX250 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX250 GPU is faster than the Quadro K3100M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX250 has a slightly 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, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 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 MX250 over the Quadro K3100M.