NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 125.00

$ 140.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

45% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

135.49 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13100 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14953 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15367 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14584 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14502 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1180 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1163 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

37.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

35% slightly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

33% slightly more shading units

768

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

239th of 586

267th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2016 April

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 960 vs Quadro M2000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the Quadro M2000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro M2000 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 Quadro M2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 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 GeForce GTX 960 over the Quadro M2000.