NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 134.95 significantly less expensive

$ 399.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

29% slightly better overall score

1094 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

269.47 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15678 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17348 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16504 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16744 points

Specifications

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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

42% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

12% slightly higher pixel rate

33.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

257th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 August

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 M3000M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the Quadro M3000M in gaming.

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 M3000M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the Quadro M3000M.