NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Max-Q, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

408% significantly better overall score

445 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

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

376.69 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

33978 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

32596 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

28174 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

33485 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

30567 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

765 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1350 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

50 W

190% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

43.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

75.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

62% significantly better floating point performance

2.42 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

85% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

85% 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

342nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 T1000 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Quadro T1000 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 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 Quadro T1000 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Quadro T1000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Quadro T1000 Max-Q.