NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA Quadro K4100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4100M 4 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

56% significantly better overall score

380 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

120.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6821 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5215 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7058 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9002 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

706 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

102.4 GB/s

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

16.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

67.78 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

1.63 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1152

79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

139% 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

309th of 586

357th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2013 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 960M vs Quadro K4100M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960M beats the Quadro K4100M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Quadro K4100M at 100 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 K4100M.