NVIDIA Quadro K4200 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Price

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$ 149.46

$ 120.50 significantly less expensive

$ 269.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

899 points

1650 points

83% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS

37 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

13 FPS

23 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

14 FPS

24 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

20 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.14 points

354.70 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8973 points

17571 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5953 points

11048 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11745 points

17636 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11396 points

22673 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12321 points

23863 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12444 points

25409 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

780 MHz

797 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

784 MHz

902 MHz

15% slightly 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

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

172.8 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

105 W

114% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

21.95 Gigapixels/s

54.12 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

87.81 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

146% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.11 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

146% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

2880

114% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

240

114% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K4200 vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K6000 GPU is faster than the Quadro K4200 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Quadro K6000 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. In addition, the Quadro K6000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K4200 has a significantly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro K6000 is better than the Quadro K4200.