NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4100M 4 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
$ 188.02
$ 100.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
441% significantly better overall score
380 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
135% significantly higher Blender score
120.97 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points
367% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6821 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
175% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
4915 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
551% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5215 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
380% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7058 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
6839 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
9002 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
113% significantly higher core clock speed
706 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
87% significantly higher memory bandwidth
102.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
100 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
383% significantly higher pixel rate
16.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
81% significantly higher texture rate
67.78 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS
141% significantly better floating point performance
1.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
Identical
1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
96
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
358th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

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 K4100M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the Quadro K4100M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly 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 Quadro K4100M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the Quadro K4100M.

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