NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 29.97 slightly less expensive

$ 199.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

2374 points

104% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

48 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

36 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

32 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

330.93 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

24565 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

28016 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

33588 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

29387 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

32919 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

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

112.1 GB/s

211.6 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

66.43 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

132.9 Gigatexels/s

128% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

4.25 TFLOPS

128% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2048

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

186th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Quadro M5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro M5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M5000 has significantly more memory with 8 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 addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro M5000 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro M5000 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.