NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 308.99 significantly less expensive

$ 677.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

5888 points

160% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

145 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

85 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

103 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

66 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

10586 points

190% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

2096.93 points

623% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

117173 points

352% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

105171 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

73163 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

103585 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

93415 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1620 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1815 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

58% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

116.2 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

348.5 Gigatexels/s

184% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

184% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

3072

84% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

192

84% significantly 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

85th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro RTX 5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Quadro RTX 5000 has a significantly 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 RTX 5000 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 is better than the GeForce GTX 970.