NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 269.96

$ 99.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

37% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

354.70 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

11048 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7932 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

55% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

76% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2880

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

240

130% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Quadro K6000.