NVIDIA Quadro K600 vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 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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$ 82.77

$ 51.99

$ 30.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

65 points

584 points

798% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

12 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

8 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.85 points

125.66 points

807% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1356 points

10296 points

659% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1572 points

10874 points

591% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1753 points

9255 points

427% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1810 points

10582 points

484% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1928 points

9104 points

372% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

876 MHz

1093 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W

9% slightly lower TDP

45 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

533rd of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

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 K600 vs Quadro M1200 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro M1200 graphics card is better than the Quadro K600 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro M1200 has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M1200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K600 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the Quadro M1200 at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro M1200 is faster than the Quadro K600.