NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200 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

147% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

125.66 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

10296 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10874 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9255 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9104 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1093 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

312th 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970M vs Quadro M1200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970M GPU is faster than the Quadro M1200 in gaming.

The Quadro M1200 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M1200 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 Quadro M1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 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 M1200.