AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K600

Price

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$ 54.99

$ 27.78 significantly less expensive

$ 82.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points

227% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1928 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

876 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

41 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

421st of 586

537th 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

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R5 240 vs Quadro K600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 240 beats the Quadro K600 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro K600 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R5 240 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 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 K600 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R5 240 over the Quadro K600.