NVIDIA Quadro K1200 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K1200 and AMD Radeon HD 6450A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro K1200

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K1200

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1058 MHz vs 625 MHz
7.2x more texture fill rate: 35.97 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 512 vs 160
5.8x better floating-point performance: 1,151 gflops vs 200 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
4.7x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
11.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2943 vs 260
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 579 vs 208

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 January 2015 vs 7 April 2011
Core clock speed	1058 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	35.97 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,151 gflops vs 200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2943 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	579 vs 208

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K1200
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2943

260

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

579

208

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K1200	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
PassMark - G3D Mark	2943	260
PassMark - G2D Mark	579	208
Geekbench - OpenCL	8813
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	31.949
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	466.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.629
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	25.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	117.722
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4080
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3288
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4080
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3288

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K1200	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM107	Caicos
Launch date	28 January 2015	7 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$321.97
Place in performance rating	802	805
Price now	$289.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	13.00
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,151 gflops	200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	160
Texture fill rate	35.97 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort, mDP mDP mDP mDP	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	160 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	1" (2.5 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Shader Model	5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1066 MHz
Memory type	128 Bit	DDR3
Memory bandwidth		8.53 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management