AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 138.02

$ 848.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

85% significantly better overall score

436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1058 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1124 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

80 GB/s

3900% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

45 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

64% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

35.97 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

150% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% 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

280th of 586

347th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

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

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 270 vs Quadro K1200 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 270 graphics card is better than the Quadro K1200 in our tests.

The Quadro K1200 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 Quadro K1200 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K1200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R9 270 is better than the Quadro K1200.