AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 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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$ 254.31

$ 138.02

$ 116.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

2% slightly better overall score

454 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

62% 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

1287 MHz

14% 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

20.6 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly 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

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

342nd of 596

346th of 596

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

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 RX 550X vs Quadro K1200 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550X graphics card is better than the Quadro K1200 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 550X 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 550X 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 550X at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the Quadro K1200.