NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000M

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 199.95

$ 65.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

183% significantly better overall score

501 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

131.34 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11041 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10557 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10308 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10116 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9696 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1029 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 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

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

55 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

114% significantly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

43.92 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

60% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% 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

239th of 586

328th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 December

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 M2000M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Quadro M2000M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960 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 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M2000M has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the Quadro M2000M.