AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 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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$ 259.99

$ 138.02

$ 121.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

593% significantly better overall score

436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

320% significantly higher Blender score

100.45 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

481% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9031 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

478% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8804 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

670% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7699 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

118% significantly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

150% significantly 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

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

45 W

137% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

401% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

400% significantly higher texture rate

35.97 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

154th of 586

347th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Quadro K1200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the Quadro K1200 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly 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 6500 XT also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 RX 6500 XT at 107 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 Radeon RX 6500 XT over the Quadro K1200.