NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro M1000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M1000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M1000M

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 39.90

$ 329.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

408% significantly better overall score

445 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

10 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

194% significantly higher Blender score

98.53 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8471 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8927 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

336% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7809 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8849 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8061 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

993 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

179% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

40 W

262% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

315% significantly higher pixel rate

15.89 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

285% significantly higher texture rate

31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

224% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% 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

341st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro M1000M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Quadro M1000M in our tests.

Our database shows that 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, 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 Quadro M1000M has a significantly lower TDP at 40 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Quadro M1000M.