AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K4200

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 149.46

$ 110.53 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

236% significantly better overall score

899 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

148% significantly higher Blender score

170.14 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

347% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11745 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

11396 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12321 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

376% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12444 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

196% significantly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

259% significantly higher boost clock speed

784 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

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

105 W

1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

310% significantly higher pixel rate

21.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

87.81 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

173% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1344

31% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

271st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Quadro K4200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the Quadro K4200 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 K4200 has a slightly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the Quadro K4200.