NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K4000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 135.15

$ 233.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

429% significantly better overall score

427 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

68 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

95.18 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

397% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5210 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

3574 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

327% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6816 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

424% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6504 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4166 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6816 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6876 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

134.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

80 W

81% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

409% significantly higher pixel rate

12.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

136% significantly higher texture rate

51.84 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

116% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

349th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2013 March

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 970 vs Quadro K4000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro K4000 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 970 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 K4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Quadro K4000.