NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 134.75

$ 745.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

99% significantly better overall score

1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

90% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2302 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

221.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

16648 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18372 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20969 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20001 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

800 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

120 W

37% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

49.47 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

93% significantly better floating point performance

2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

23% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the Quadro M4000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 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 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the Quadro M4000.