NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Price

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$ 1253.25

$ 1720.75 significantly less expensive

$ 2974.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

123% significantly better overall score

278 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.30 points

119% significantly higher Blender score

84.13 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11969 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

4121 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7421 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

3037 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14780 points

320% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3517 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14358 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4645 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

6454 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

3739 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15314 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16269 points

380% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

680 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

27.44 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

11.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

109.8 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

45.18 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

75% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 586

387th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

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 670 vs Quadro K3100M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 670 graphics card is better than the Quadro K3100M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 670 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K3100M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 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 670 over the Quadro K3100M.