NVIDIA Quadro K4200 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 149.46

$ 392.49 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

899 points

12174 points

1254% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS

289 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

13 FPS

141 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

14 FPS

206 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

114 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.14 points

5402.96 points

3075% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12321 points

168368 points

1266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12444 points

158623 points

1174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

780 MHz

2190 MHz

180% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

784 MHz

2430 MHz

209% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

172.8 GB/s

360 GB/s

108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

105 W

185% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

21.95 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

785% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

87.81 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

519% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.11 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

1553% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

7168

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

224

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro K4200 vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Quadro K4200 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 K4200 has a significantly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 GeForce RTX 4070 over the Quadro K4200.