NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K600

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 82.77

$ 286.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

3379% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

1994% significantly higher Blender score

13.85 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

1810% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1356 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

1182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

1754% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

1845% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

958% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1284 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

1517% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

1577% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1928 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

876 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

687% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

41 W

253% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

1782% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

773% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

766% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

550% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

537th 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

DDR3

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 K600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro K600 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K600 has a significantly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 is faster than the Quadro K600.