NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 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

1252 points

53% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

19 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

17 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1317 points

2302 points

74% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

221.61 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

16648 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

18372 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

20969 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

20001 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

23838 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly 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

192.3 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

120 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

139% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

2.57 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

1664

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 586

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M4000 beats the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 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 M4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 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 Quadro M4000 over the GeForce GTX 660.