NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M 4 GB, 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

1446 points

183% significantly better overall score

510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

291% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5107 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

33% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

196% significantly higher pixel rate

16.83 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

67.31 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

1.62 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1344

5% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

327th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970M vs Quadro K5000M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the Quadro K5000M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970M 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K5000M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K5000M at 100 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970M over the Quadro K5000M.