AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

899 points

15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

20 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

13 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

784 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

105 W

9% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

21.95 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

87.81 Gigatexels/s

42% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

2.11 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1344

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

100% significantly 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

283rd of 586

271st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 260X vs Quadro K4200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K4200 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 260X in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 260X 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 Radeon R7 260X 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K4200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 K4200 has a slightly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro K4200 is better than the Radeon R7 260X.