NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro P400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P400 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro P400

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 67.36

$ 301.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

559% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

635% significantly higher Blender score

39.41 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5691 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

412% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5692 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

518% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5511 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

421% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5614 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

530% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5131 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1070 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1252 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

599% significantly higher memory bandwidth

32.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

30 W

383% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

229% significantly higher pixel rate

20.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

511% significantly higher texture rate

20.03 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

550% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

550% 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

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2017 February

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 P400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro P400 in gaming.

The Quadro P400 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 Quadro P400 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 P400 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 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 P400.