NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 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

403% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

155.79 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11800 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly 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

4% slightly higher memory bandwidth

115.2 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

101% significantly higher pixel rate

24.67 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

2.37 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1536

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly 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

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2013 July

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 K5100M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the Quadro K5100M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 970M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 970M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K5100M at 100 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970M is faster than the Quadro K5100M.