NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 199.96

$ 169.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

2374 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

48 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

32 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

330.93 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

24565 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

28016 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33588 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

29387 points

0.38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

32919 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

Identical

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

3% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

66.43 Gigapixels/s

0.70% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

132.9 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

4.25 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2048

23% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

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

185th 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 M5000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro M5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the GeForce GTX 970 and the Quadro M5000 have the same base clock speed. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M5000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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 GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Quadro M5000 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M5000 over the GeForce GTX 970.