NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 199.96

$ 679.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

5% slightly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

48 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

32 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

330.93 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

24565 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

28016 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33588 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29387 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32919 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

150 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

66.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

4.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

186th 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 M5000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro M5000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M5000 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 M5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro M5000 is better than the GeForce GTX 980.