NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 134.75

$ 120.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

1252 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

19 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

2302 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

221.61 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

16648 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

18372 points

0.76% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

20969 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

20001 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

23838 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% 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

192.3 GB/s

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

33% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

80.39 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.57 TFLOPS

40% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1664

116% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

116% significantly 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

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs Quadro M4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro M4000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 950 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 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 M4000 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M4000 over the GeForce GTX 950.