NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

834 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

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18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

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13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

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9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

148.23 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

0.29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8558 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5449 points

5470 points

0.39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10194 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4311 points

5648 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

11412 points

0.52% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11138 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

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

144.2 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

122 W

14% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

22.59 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

90.37 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

2.17 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

1536

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 586

274th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro K5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro K5000 beats the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 660 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K5000 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 122 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro K5000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.