NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro P4200

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 349.99

$ 19.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

2911 points

28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

47 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

39 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

36 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

511.91 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

37676 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

38169 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

39489 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

48559 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1227 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

100 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

159th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro P4200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Quadro P4200 in gaming.

The Quadro P4200 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro P4200 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro P4200 has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Quadro P4200.