NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 550 MHz
32.7x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 2.2 GTexel / s
128x more pipelines: 1024 vs 8
107.7x better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
65.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6111 vs 93
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 334

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 January 2015 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	1127 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 8
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6111 vs 93
PassMark - G2D Mark	673 vs 334

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 120 Watt
171.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6111

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

673

334

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
PassMark - G3D Mark	6111	93
PassMark - G2D Mark	673	334
Geekbench - OpenCL	18734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	162

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GM206	G98
Launch date	22 January 2015	15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	514	516
Price now	$229.99
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz
Core clock speed	1127 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops	22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1024	8
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
SLI options	2x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pins
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost