NVIDIA Quadro K5100M vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points
1094 points
281% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
25 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
16 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
15 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
14 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.79 points
269.47 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7697 points
17348 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11800 points
16504 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
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

115.2 GB/s
160.4 GB/s
39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W
75 W
33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

24.67 Gigapixels/s
33.6 Gigapixels/s
36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

98.69 Gigatexels/s
46% significantly higher texture rate
67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS
10% slightly 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
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 586
257th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

Quadro K5100M vs Quadro M3000M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M3000M beats the Quadro K5100M in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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 slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K5100M at 100 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro M3000M is better than the Quadro K5100M.

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