NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 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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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 134.75

$ 385.24 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

Identical

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

19 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

2302 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

221.61 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

16648 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

18372 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

20969 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

20001 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

23838 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

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256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

Identical

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

120 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

1664

8% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 597

253rd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

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 680 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro M4000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 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 M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro M4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M4000 over the GeForce GTX 680.