NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000M

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 199.95

$ 55.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

107% significantly better overall score

501 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

131.34 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11041 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10557 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10308 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10116 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9696 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1029 MHz

0.49% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 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

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

55 W

63% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

116% significantly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

43.92 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

20% slightly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly more texture mapping units

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

261st of 586

328th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 December

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 M2000M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 950 beats the Quadro M2000M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro M2000M 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 950 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M2000M 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 Quadro M2000M has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 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 950 over the Quadro M2000M.