NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 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

974 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

21 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

135.49 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

13100 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

14953 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

15367 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

14584 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

14502 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

1180 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

1163 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

75 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

37.22 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

25% slightly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% 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

264th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro M2000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M2000 beats the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro M2000 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 Quadro M2000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M2000 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro M2000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.