NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 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

Identical

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

37 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

24 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

354.70 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

21520 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

25409 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

125% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

100% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2880

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

230th 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

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 980M vs Quadro K6000 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980M graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 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 GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980M is better than the Quadro K6000.