NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 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

15% slightly better overall score

1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

2302 points

0.96% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

221.61 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

16648 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18372 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20969 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

20001 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

23838 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

800 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

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

0.71% slightly higher pixel rate

49.47 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1664

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970M vs Quadro M4000 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the Quadro M4000 in our tests.

Our database shows that 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 M4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro M4000 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970M over the Quadro M4000.