AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare AMD Radeon R7 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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$ 125.00

$ 82.77

$ 42.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

86% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

160% 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

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

152% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

36% slightly lower TDP

41 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

66% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 586

530th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

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

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 240 vs Quadro K600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 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 R7 240 has significantly more memory with 2 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 Radeon R7 240 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Quadro K600 at 41 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 240 is faster than the Quadro K600.