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NVIDIA Quadro GP100

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 is a workstation graphics card released on October 1, 2016, built on the Pascal architecture. It has 3,584 shading units, 16 GB of HBM2 memory, a boost clock of 1.44 GHz and a 235 W board power rating. It scores 14,096 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.0.

PascalGP100-876-A1Workstation

8/10 key specs recorded · 42 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

3,584cores

Memory

16 GB

HBM2

Boost clock

1.44 GHz

Board power

235 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 scores 14,096 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #195), measured across 41 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 785.

PassMark G3D Mark

14,096

Rank #195
Faster than 93% of 2,658 GPUs
41 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 170 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 86.1% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 101 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 90.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 135 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 89.2% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 51 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 80.5% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 6,894 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 89.1% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 averages DirectX 9 170 fps, DirectX 10 101 fps, DirectX 11 135 fps, DirectX 12 51 fps and GPU Compute 6,894 ops/s, across 41 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 16 GB

Core clock 1328 MHz

Memory clock 703 MHz

Max TDP 235 W

First benchmarked 2017-04-03

Samples 41

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 16 GB of memory and a core clock of 1328 MHz, first benchmarked on 2017-04-03. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP100-876-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 is based on the Pascal architecture and uses the GP100-876-A1 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 3,584

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has 3,584 shading units.

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro GP100. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro GP100.

Clock speeds

Base clock Not recorded

Boost clock 1.44 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 boosts to 1.44 GHz.

Memory

Size 16 GB

Type HBM2

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 is equipped with 16 GB of HBM2 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has a board power rating of 235 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 235 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched October 1, 2016

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 was released on October 1, 2016.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 14,096

PassMark G2D 785

Rank #195

Samples 41

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 supports OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.0.

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.3

OpenCL 1.2

CUDA compute capability 6.0

Features

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.0

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.0) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 6th Generation Encoder engines: 3NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 3rd Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA Quadro GP100
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: No; 8K: No	Supported4:4:4: No
AV1	Not supported	Not supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Quadro GP100: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (6th Generation, encoder engines: 3) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (3rd Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 have?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has 16 GB of HBM2 memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has a board power rating of 235 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro GP100?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 scores 14,096 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #195. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 51 fps.

Does the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 support AV1 encoding?

No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA Quadro GP100.

What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro GP100?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 has CUDA compute capability 6.0.

What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 use?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

When was the NVIDIA Quadro GP100 released?

The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 was released on October 1, 2016.

Corrections to this record

After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.

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Architecture: Pascal (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GP100 -> Pascal. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).

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