NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200 4 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

816 points

79% significantly better overall score

454 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

100.45 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

9073 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7699 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

1058 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

1124 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s

80% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

45 W

211% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

129% significantly higher texture rate

35.97 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

87% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

282nd of 596

345th of 596

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro K1200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 660 beats the Quadro K1200 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Quadro K1200 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 Quadro K1200 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K1200 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 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 660 over the Quadro K1200.