NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

575 points

100% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

155.79 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

11800 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

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

28.8 GB/s

115.2 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

33% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

24.67 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

119% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1536

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% 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

315th of 586

382nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 950M vs Quadro K5100M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950M GPU is faster than the Quadro K5100M in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 950M 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K5100M at 100 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950M is better than the Quadro K5100M.