NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 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

1650 points

474% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 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

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

155.79 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11800 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

771 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

160.4 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

Identical

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

192% significantly higher pixel rate

24.67 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

98.69 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

46% significantly better floating point performance

2.37 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

Identical

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

33% slightly 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

230th of 586

383rd 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 K5100M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980M beats the Quadro K5100M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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, both the GeForce GTX 980M and the Quadro K5100M have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980M over the Quadro K5100M.