NVIDIA Quadro M3000M
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M is a workstation graphics card released on August 18, 2015, built on the Maxwell architecture. It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, a boost clock of 1.05 GHz and a 75 W board power rating. It scores 5,544 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_1), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 5.2.
Depth: 33 recorded fields, 6 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: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M scores 5,544 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 82% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #497), measured across 541 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 399.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M averages DirectX 9 97 fps, DirectX 10 26 fps, DirectX 11 42 fps, DirectX 12 23 fps and GPU Compute 2,124 ops/s, across 541 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, DirectX 12.1 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2015-12-20. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M is based on the Maxwell architecture and uses the GM204 graphics processor.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M runs at a base clock of 1.05 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M has a board power rating of 75 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M was released on August 18, 2015.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_1), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 5.2.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 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
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 5.2Support 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 M3000M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M supports CUDA (Compute capability 5.2) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M provides hardware decode for H.264 (AVC). It does not support hardware decode for HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M: NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (1st Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA Quadro M3000M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M have?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M has a board power rating of 75 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M scores 5,544 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 82% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #497. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 23 fps.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M has CUDA compute capability 5.2.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M use?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M released?
The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M was released on August 18, 2015.
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.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Maxwell (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GM204 -> Maxwell. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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