NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB 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

1419 points

394% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

155.79 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5204 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7697 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

8639 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11800 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 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

112.2 GB/s

115.2 GB/s

2% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

100 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

24.67 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

2.37 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1536

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

385th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 960 vs Quadro K5100M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Quadro K5100M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K5100M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 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 960 is better than the Quadro K5100M.