NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

The NVIDIA Quadro K3100M is a DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.3 compatible graphics card for mobile workstations. It is a Kepler-based GPU built on the GK104 chip with 768 out of 1536 shader cores activated and is manufactured in 28nm at TSMC. The Quadro K3100M is built for the Intel Shark Bay generation (Haswell) and is a successor to the Quadro K3000M (Chief River platform). As a new feature, PCIe 3.0 is supported for the first time. The K3100M usually comes with 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM clocked at 800 MHz (3200 MHz effective, 102.4 GB/s).

The Quadro series offers certified drivers that are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications like CAD or DCC. OpenGL performance, for example, should be significantly better than with GeForce graphics cards of similar specifications.

Architecture

The Kepler architecture is the successor to the Fermi architecture that first appeared in laptops with the GeForce 400M series. The GK104 Kepler core offers eight shader blocks, called SMX, that are clocked at the same speed as the central core. In the K3100M, 4 of 8 blocks are active leading to the 768 CUDA cores. Although more shader cores are available in the Kepler architecture as compared to the Fermi design, the Kepler shaders are still expected to be up to twice as power efficient. However, due to the missing hot clock of the shader domain, two shaders of a Kepler chip offer similar performance to just one shader of a Fermi chip (as the latter is clocked twice as fast).

Performance

The performance is clearly above the old Quadro K3000M and just slightly below the Quadro K4000M. This places the K3100M somewhat below the consumer GTX 765M GPU. Nevertheless, most demanding games of 2013 will run fluently with high to very high details.

Features

The improved feature set now includes support for up to 4 active displays. Furthermore, high resolution monitors of up to 3840 x 2160 pixels can now be connected using DisplayPort 1.2 or HDMI 1.4a if available. HD-Audio codecs, such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, can be transmitted via bitstream mode through the HDMI port. However, as most laptops will feature Optimus, the integrated GPU will likely have direct control over the display ports and may limit the feature set available by the Nvidia Kepler cards.

Using CUDA or OpenCL 1.2, the cores of the Quadro K3100M can be used for general calculations.

The 5th generation PureVideo HD video processor (VP5) is also integrated in the GK104 core and offers hardware decoding of HD videos. Common codecs such as MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264 and VC1/WMV9 are fully supported up to 4K resolutions while VC1 and MPEG-4 are supported up to 1080p. Two streams can be decoded in parallel for features such as Picture-in-Picture. Another novelty is the inclusion of a dedicated video encoding engine similar to Intel QuickSync that can be accessed by the NVENC API.

The power consumption of the Quadro K3100M is rated at a TGP of 75 W including the board and memory components. Therefore, the card is suited for large notebooks with 17-inch displays or greater.

Manufacturer

NVIDIA

Quadro K Series

Quadro K5100M (compare)	1536 @ 771 MHz	256 Bit @ 3600 MHz
Quadro K5000M (compare)	1344 @ 706 MHz	256 Bit @ 3000 MHz
Quadro K4100M (compare)	1152 @ 706 MHz	256 Bit @ 3200 MHz
Quadro K4000M (compare)	960 @ 600 MHz	256 Bit @ 2800 MHz
Quadro K3100M	768 @ 706 MHz	256 Bit @ 3200 MHz
Quadro K3000M (compare)	576 @ 654 MHz	256 Bit @ 2800 MHz
Quadro K2100M (compare)	576 @ 667 MHz	128 Bit @ 3000 MHz
Quadro K1100M (compare)	384 @ 705 MHz	128 Bit @ 2800 MHz
Quadro K620M (compare)	384 @ 1029 - 1124 (Boost) MHz	64 Bit @ 2000 MHz
Quadro K2000M (compare)	384 @ 745 MHz	128 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Quadro K1000M (compare)	192 @ 850 MHz	128 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Quadro K610M (compare)	192 @ 954 MHz	64 Bit @ 2600 MHz
Quadro K510M (compare)	192 @ 846 MHz	64 Bit @ 2400 MHz
Quadro K500M (compare)	192 @ 850 MHz	64 Bit @ 1800 MHz

Codename

N15E-Q1-A2

Architecture

Kepler

Pipelines

768 - unified

Core Speed

706 MHz

Memory Speed

3200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

4096 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

Transistor Count

3540 Million

technology

28 nm

Features

Optimus, PhysX, Verde Drivers, CUDA, OpenCL 1.2, 3D Vision, 3DTV Play

Notebook Size

large

Date of Announcement

23.07.2013

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobile-work...

Benchmarks

3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

min: 12079 avg: 13710 median: 13554 (23%) max: 15497 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 17865 avg: 18854.7 median: 18389 (10%) max: 20310 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

min: 2259 avg: 2552 median: 2666 (10%) max: 2731 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

min: 2381 avg: 2677.7 median: 2797 (7%) max: 2855 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 95674 avg: 127453 median: 115455 (15%) max: 171229 Points

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

min: 3662 avg: 3879 median: 3901 (12%) max: 4074 points

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

min: 3441 avg: 3587.7 median: 3581 (7%) max: 3741 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon R9 M375 -8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M -5%

ATI Radeon HD 5850 -5%

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 -5%

NVIDIA Quadro K4000M -3%

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 -3%

AMD Radeon R7 M275DX -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M SLI 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX 0%

NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI 1%

AMD Radeon R9 M370X 1%

AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 Mobile 3%

NVIDIA Quadro M620 5%

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX 5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M 10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI 13%

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NVIDIA Titan RTX 1111%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

min: 34 avg: 35.9 median: 35 (13%) max: 37 fps

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

min: 33 avg: 34.6 median: 34 (20%) max: 35 fps

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

45.1 fps (20%)

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SPECviewperf 11
Siemens NX 1920x1080 +

Tcvis 1920x1080 +

SolidWorks 1920x1080 +

Pro/ENGINEER 1920x1080 +

Maya 1920x1080 +

Lightwave 1920x1080 +

Ensight 1920x1080 +

Catia 1920x1080 +

SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

Windows 7 Experience Index - Gaming graphics

7 points (100%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Graphics

7 points (100%)

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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

min: 210 avg: 212.5 median: 212 (4%) max: 215 Samples/s

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

min: 96 avg: 259.5 median: 259 (2%) max: 423 Samples/s

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Batman: Arkham Knight

2015

37 fps + Compare

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17 fps + Compare

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» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

The Witcher 3

2015

40.3 fps + Compare

23.5 fps + Compare

13.8 fps + Compare

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Dell Precision M6800	4800MQ	16384 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Forceware 312.32 Win7/64	12079
Schenker W505	E3-1231 v3	16384 MB	706 / 1600 MHz	4096MB GDDR5 ForceWare 345.05	13554
Bullman E-Klasse 5	4790K	32768 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Nvidia Forceware 353.62	15497

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Schenker W505	E3-1231 v3	16384 MB	706 / 1600 MHz	4096MB GDDR5 ForceWare 345.05	17865
Dell Precision M6800	4800MQ	16384 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Forceware 312.32 Win7/64	18389
Bullman E-Klasse 5	4790K	32768 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Nvidia Forceware 353.62	20310

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Dell Precision M6800	4800MQ	16384 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Forceware 312.32 Win7/64	2259
Schenker W505	E3-1231 v3	16384 MB	706 / 1600 MHz	4096MB GDDR5 ForceWare 345.05	2666
Bullman E-Klasse 5	4790K	32768 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Nvidia Forceware 353.62	2731

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Dell Precision M6800	4800MQ	16384 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Forceware 312.32 Win7/64	2381
Schenker W505	E3-1231 v3	16384 MB	706 / 1600 MHz	4096MB GDDR5 ForceWare 345.05	2797
Bullman E-Klasse 5	4790K	32768 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Nvidia Forceware 353.62	2855

Model	CPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Schenker W505	E3-1231 v3	16384 MB	706 / 1600 MHz	4096MB GDDR5 ForceWare 345.05	95674
Dell Precision M6800	4800MQ	16384 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Forceware 312.32 Win7/64	115455
Bullman E-Klasse 5	4790K	32768 MB	706 / 800 MHz	4096MB Nvidia Forceware 353.62	171229