NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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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$ 879.85

$ 149.46

$ 730.39 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

177% significantly better overall score

899 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

115% significantly higher Blender score

170.14 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8973 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5953 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11745 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

11396 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12321 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12444 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

55% 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

165 W

105 W

57% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

254% significantly higher pixel rate

21.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

77% significantly higher texture rate

87.81 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

136% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

52% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th 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 980 vs Quadro K4200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the Quadro K4200 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly 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 980 also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K4200 has a significantly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Quadro K4200.