NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 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

32% slightly better overall score

1094 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

269.47 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15678 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17348 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16504 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16744 points

Specifications

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

160.4 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

33.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

25% slightly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% 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

257th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970M vs Quadro M3000M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the Quadro M3000M in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M3000M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 970M and the Quadro M3000M have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970M is faster than the Quadro M3000M.