NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Max-Q, 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

4905 points

42% slightly better overall score

3440 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

52 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

458.13 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40459 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42672 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1215 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1480 MHz

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

320.3 GB/s

42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

100 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

94.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

213.1 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 597

140th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Quadro P4200 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the Quadro P4200 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 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.

In addition, the Quadro P4200 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Quadro P4200 Max-Q.