AMD Radeon R7 M260X vs NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260X 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro 3000M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

176 points

11% slightly better overall score

158 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon R7 M260X and the Quadro 3000M? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5979 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2894 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5787 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3731 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

620 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

450 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s

80 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.72 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

4.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

17.16 Gigatexels/s

18 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

60% significantly more shading units

240

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

461st of 597

473rd of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R7 M260X vs Quadro 3000M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R7 M260X graphics card is better than the Quadro 3000M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 M260X 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R7 M260X has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 M260X over the Quadro 3000M.