NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 149.46

$ 219.54 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

151% significantly better overall score

899 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

170.14 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8973 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5953 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11745 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

11396 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12321 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12444 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

784 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

224.4 GB/s

29% slightly higher memory bandwidth

172.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

105 W

38% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

200% significantly higher pixel rate

21.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

87.81 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

86% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

23% slightly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

112

7% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

271st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro K4200 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Quadro K4200 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K4200 has a slightly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Quadro K4200.