NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 170.10

$ 94.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

2513 points

77% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

62 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

36 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

41 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

31 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

281.16 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13735 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

0.79% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8704 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16029 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17881 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

0.79% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

8704 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19104 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20167 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

73% significantly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

52% significantly higher boost 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

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

37.01 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

148 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

3.55 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2304

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

176th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2014 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 K5200 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro K5200 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K5200 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro K5200 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K5200 over the GeForce GTX 960.