NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 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
$ 134.75
$ 154.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
64% significantly better overall score
1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
221.61 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
16648 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
18372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
20969 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
20001 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
23838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
88% significantly higher core clock speed
800 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
192.3 GB/s
0.05% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
Identical
120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
65% significantly higher pixel rate
49.47 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
53% significantly higher texture rate
80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS
52% significantly better floating point performance
2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
1664
44% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
104
44% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Quadro M4000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Quadro M4000 in gaming performance.

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, both the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the Quadro M4000 have an identical TDP. 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 M4000.

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