NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200 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

2513 points

73% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

62 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

36 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

41 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

31 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

281.16 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13735 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16029 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17881 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19104 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

20167 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

34% slightly higher boost 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

192.3 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

37.01 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

148 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

3.55 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2304

79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

176th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2014 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 K5200 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K5200 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5200 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 significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K5200 at 150 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 Quadro K5200 over the GeForce GTX 970M.