NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M 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

60% significantly better overall score

510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5107 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

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

100 W

40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

16.83 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

67.31 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

1.62 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

1344

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly 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

277th of 586

327th 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 K5000M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 660 beats the Quadro K5000M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K5000M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K5000M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 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 660 over the Quadro K5000M.