GeForce GTX 960M vs Quadro P4000

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Quadro P4000 with GeForce GTX 960M, including specs and performance data.

Quadro P4000
2017
8 GB GDDR5, 100 Watt
29.41
+244%

P4000 outperforms GTX 960M by a whopping 244% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking197500
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.61no data
Power efficiency19.678.01
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGP104GM107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date6 February 2017 (8 years ago)13 March 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$815 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792640
Core clock speed1202 MHz1096 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1176 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate165.847.04
Floating-point processing power5.304 TFLOPS1.505 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs11240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1901 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPortNo outputs
VGA аnalog display supportno data+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportno data+
HDMI-+
Display Port1.4no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream-+
GeForce ShadowPlay-+
GPU Boostno data2.0
GameWorks-+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder-+
Optimus++
BatteryBoost-+
3D Stereo+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data
Anselno data+

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1212 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.5
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA6.1+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Quadro P4000 29.41
+244%
GTX 960M 8.56

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro P4000 11572
+244%
GTX 960M 3367

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Quadro P4000 41351
+276%
GTX 960M 10993

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Quadro P4000 41749
+404%
GTX 960M 8285

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

Quadro P4000 38590
+227%
GTX 960M 11818

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Quadro P4000 102
+219%
GTX 960M 32

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p300−350
+216%
95
−216%
Full HD68
+94.3%
35
−94.3%
1440p50−55
+233%
15
−233%
4K45−50
+221%
14
−221%

Cost per frame, $

1080p11.99no data
1440p16.30no data
4K18.11no data

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Atomic Heart 80−85
+300%
20−22
−300%
Counter-Strike 2 55−60
+263%
16−18
−263%
Cyberpunk 2077 60−65
+265%
16−18
−265%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Atomic Heart 80−85
+300%
20−22
−300%
Battlefield 5 100−110
+182%
38
−182%
Counter-Strike 2 55−60
+263%
16−18
−263%
Cyberpunk 2077 60−65
+265%
16−18
−265%
Far Cry 5 90−95
+229%
28
−229%
Fortnite 130−140
+33.3%
99
−33.3%
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
+217%
35
−217%
Forza Horizon 5 80−85
+286%
21−24
−286%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 110−120
+220%
35
−220%
Valorant 180−190
+119%
80−85
−119%

Full HD
High Preset

Atomic Heart 80−85
+300%
20−22
−300%
Battlefield 5 100−110
+245%
31
−245%
Counter-Strike 2 55−60
+263%
16−18
−263%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
+111%
120−130
−111%
Cyberpunk 2077 60−65
+265%
16−18
−265%
Dota 2 130−140
+111%
60−65
−111%
Far Cry 5 90−95
+268%
25
−268%
Fortnite 130−140
+230%
40
−230%
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
+258%
31
−258%
Forza Horizon 5 80−85
+286%
21−24
−286%
Grand Theft Auto V 100−105
+223%
31
−223%
Metro Exodus 60−65
+433%
12
−433%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 110−120
+286%
29
−286%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 77
+221%
24
−221%
Valorant 180−190
+119%
80−85
−119%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 100−110
+312%
26
−312%
Counter-Strike 2 55−60
+263%
16−18
−263%
Cyberpunk 2077 60−65
+265%
16−18
−265%
Dota 2 130−140
+111%
60−65
−111%
Far Cry 5 90−95
+300%
23
−300%
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
+344%
25
−344%
Forza Horizon 5 80−85
+286%
21−24
−286%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 110−120
+522%
18
−522%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 41
+193%
14
−193%
Valorant 180−190
+119%
80−85
−119%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 130−140
+326%
31
−326%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 24−27
+271%
7−8
−271%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 190−200
+210%
60−65
−210%
Grand Theft Auto V 50−55
+382%
10−12
−382%
Metro Exodus 35−40
+333%
9−10
−333%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+307%
40−45
−307%
Valorant 220−230
+138%
90−95
−138%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 75−80
+353%
17
−353%
Cyberpunk 2077 27−30
+314%
7−8
−314%
Far Cry 5 65−70
+340%
15
−340%
Forza Horizon 4 75−80
+317%
18
−317%
Forza Horizon 5 50−55
+257%
14−16
−257%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 45−50
+277%
12−14
−277%

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 65−70
+283%
18
−283%

4K
High Preset

Atomic Heart 21−24
+214%
7−8
−214%
Counter-Strike 2 12−14
+550%
2−3
−550%
Grand Theft Auto V 55−60
+175%
20
−175%
Metro Exodus 24−27
+700%
3−4
−700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
+330%
10
−330%
Valorant 160−170
+300%
40−45
−300%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 40−45
+1367%
3
−1367%
Counter-Strike 2 12−14
+550%
2−3
−550%
Cyberpunk 2077 12−14
+333%
3−4
−333%
Dota 2 85−90
+197%
30−33
−197%
Far Cry 5 30−35
+386%
7
−386%
Forza Horizon 4 50−55
+285%
12−14
−285%
Forza Horizon 5 27−30
+367%
6−7
−367%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 30−35
+300%
8−9
−300%

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 30−35
+540%
5
−540%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2 10−12
+0%
10−12
+0%

This is how Quadro P4000 and GTX 960M compete in popular games:

  • Quadro P4000 is 216% faster in 900p
  • Quadro P4000 is 94% faster in 1080p
  • Quadro P4000 is 233% faster in 1440p
  • Quadro P4000 is 221% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Battlefield 5, with 4K resolution and the Ultra Preset, the Quadro P4000 is 1367% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Quadro P4000 is ahead in 66 tests (99%)
  • there's a draw in 1 test (1%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 29.41 8.56
Recency 6 February 2017 13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

Quadro P4000 has a 243.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 960M, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

The Quadro P4000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 960M in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro P4000 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 960M is a notebook one.

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