NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 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

1650 points

493% significantly better overall score

278 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

214% significantly higher Blender score

84.13 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

21520 points

422% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

4121 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

576% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3517 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points

461% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4645 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

604% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

680 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

160.4 GB/s

56% significantly higher memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

75 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

538% significantly higher pixel rate

11.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

45.18 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

100% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

229th of 586

389th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 980M vs Quadro K3100M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980M GPU is faster than the Quadro K3100M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 K3100M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 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 980M over the Quadro K3100M.