NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 199.96

$ 320.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

2374 points

88% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

48 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

36 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

32 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

330.93 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

24565 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

28016 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

33588 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

29387 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

32919 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

1050 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

211.6 GB/s

10% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

150 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

66.43 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

4.25 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2048

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

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

246th of 586

186th of 586

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 M5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro M5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming.

The Quadro M5000 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M5000 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 M5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro M5000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 680.