AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 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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$ 225.00

$ 138.02

$ 86.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

42% slightly better overall score

436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7699 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 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

112 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

45 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

35.97 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

Identical

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586

346th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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

4.5

Radeon RX 550 vs Quadro K1200 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the Quadro K1200 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550 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 RX 550 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K1200 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 550 is faster than the Quadro K1200.