NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 125.00

$ 130.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

6% slightly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

135.49 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13100 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14953 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15367 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14584 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14502 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1180 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1163 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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

Identical

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

75 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

37.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

Identical

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

265th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2016 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs Quadro M2000 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card is better than the Quadro M2000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Quadro M2000 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 950 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M2000 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M2000 has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 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 GeForce GTX 950 over the Quadro M2000.