NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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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NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 138.02

$ 91.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

695% significantly better overall score

436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

1377% significantly higher Blender score

100.45 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

72998 points

704% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9073 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71667 points

693% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56109 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

621% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

710% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7699 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

216% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

295% significantly higher texture rate

35.97 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

400% 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586

347th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3050 vs Quadro K1200 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU is faster than the Quadro K1200 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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 RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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 K1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 over the Quadro K1200.