NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 333.02 significantly less expensive

$ 588.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

24% slightly better overall score

834 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

148.23 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8558 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5470 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10194 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

5648 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11412 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11138 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

63% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

35% slightly lower TDP

122 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

68% significantly higher pixel rate

22.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

90.37 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.17 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1536

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% 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

264th of 594

277th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs Quadro K5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly 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 K5000 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Quadro K5000 at 122 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro K5000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950.