NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 144.95 significantly less expensive

$ 399.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1048 points

4% slightly better overall score

1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

23 FPS

25 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

269.47 points

119% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15678 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17348 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16504 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

16744 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

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

160.4 GB/s

51% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

13% slightly higher pixel rate

33.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

67.2 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.15 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1024

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

268th of 599

271st of 599

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

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs Quadro M3000M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card is better than the Quadro M3000M in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M3000M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro M3000M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 950 over the Quadro M3000M.