NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 125.00

$ 244.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

132% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

135.49 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13100 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14953 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15367 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14584 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14502 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1180 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1163 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

112% significantly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

77% significantly higher pixel rate

37.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

119% significantly higher texture rate

55.82 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

119% significantly better floating point performance

1.79 TFLOPS

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

116% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 April

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 M2000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro M2000 in gaming.

The Quadro M2000 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 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 M2000.