NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA Quadro K2000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K2000M 2 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

593 points

434% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

304% significantly higher Blender score

34.53 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

395% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2385 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

376% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2575 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2616 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3121 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

2616 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

745 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 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

80.19 GB/s

178% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

215% significantly higher pixel rate

5.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

97% significantly higher texture rate

23.84 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% 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

310th of 586

501st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 960M vs Quadro K2000M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960M beats the Quadro K2000M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 960M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 K2000M has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 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 960M over the Quadro K2000M.