AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

65 points

Identical

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

25 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

30 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

876 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

1246% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

41 W

570% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s

1817% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s

1218% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

1366% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

1000% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

531st of 586

530th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2013 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 390X vs Quadro K600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Quadro K600 beats the Radeon R9 390X in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 390X has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R9 390X has significantly more memory with 8 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 significantly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K600 over the Radeon R9 390X.