NVIDIA Quadro K2000M vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K2000M 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Price

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$ 144.02

$ 51.99

$ 92.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

111 points

584 points

426% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

12 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

9 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.53 points

125.66 points

263% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2385 points

10296 points

331% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2575 points

10874 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2616 points

9255 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3121 points

10582 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2616 points

9104 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

745 MHz

1093 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W

45 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 586

312th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K2000M vs Quadro M1200 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro M1200 graphics card is better than the Quadro K2000M in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro M1200 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M1200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M1200 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Quadro K2000M at 55 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M1200 over the Quadro K2000M.