NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 125.00

$ 164.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

111% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

135.49 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13100 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14953 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15367 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14584 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14502 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

1180 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

1163 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

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

120% significantly higher pixel rate

37.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

120% significantly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

120% significantly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

49% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

264th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2016 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Quadro M2000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Quadro M2000 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Quadro M2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 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 M2000.