The Quadro M3000M was a professional mobile graphics chip by NVIDIA, launched on August 18th, 2015. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GM204 graphics processor, in its N16E-Q1-A1 variant, the chip supports DirectX 12. The GM204 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 398 mm² and 5,200 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 980, which uses the same GPU but has all 2048 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the Quadro M3000M to reach the product's target shader count. It features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 4 GB GDDR5 memory with the Quadro M3000M, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 823 MHz, which can be boosted up to 924 MHz, memory is running at 1253 MHz (5 Gbps effective). Being a mxm module card, the NVIDIA Quadro M3000M does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 75 W maximum. This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have monitors connected to it. Rather it is intended for use in laptop/notebooks and will use the output of the host mobile device. Quadro M3000M is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface.