NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 134.75

$ 234.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

80% significantly better overall score

1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2302 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

221.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

16648 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18372 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20969 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20001 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

49.47 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

52% significantly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

Identical

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

Identical

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro M4000 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Quadro M4000 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 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 Quadro M4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Quadro M4000.