NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K1000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K1000M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00
$ 69.99
$ 219.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
2112% significantly better overall score
93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
1252% significantly higher Blender score
21.04 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points
2291% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
1335 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
1328% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
947 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
2035% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
2149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1509 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
1328% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
947 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
1814% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1743 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
2049% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
1509 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
77% significantly higher core clock speed
850 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
567% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
45 W
166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
2311% significantly higher pixel rate
3.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
804% significantly higher texture rate
13.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
499% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
350% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
505th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Quadro K1000M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the Quadro K1000M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the Quadro K1000M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the Quadro K1000M.

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