AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

33% slightly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

0.64% slightly higher core clock speed

1093 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

45 W

155% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

284th of 586

312th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 260X vs Quadro M1200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X GPU is faster than the Quadro M1200 in gaming.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M1200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X is better than the Quadro M1200.