NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 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

3839 points

61% significantly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

48 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

32 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

330.93 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

24565 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

28016 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33588 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29387 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32919 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

66.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

42% slightly higher texture rate

132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

42% slightly better floating point performance

4.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

37% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

37% slightly more texture mapping units

128

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

127th of 586

186th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 980 Ti vs Quadro M5000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the Quadro M5000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M5000 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 Quadro M5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the Quadro M5000.