NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1227 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5.8x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Launch date 21 February 2018 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed 1227 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • 15.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 137.4 GTexel / s
  • 3.1x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1792
  • 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,632 gflops vs 4,398 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 137.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 1792
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 gflops vs 4,398 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 10579
PassMark - G2D Mark 525
Geekbench - OpenCL 34875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 103
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 103
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP104 Hawaii
Launch date 21 February 2018 24 June 2014
Place in performance rating 286 283
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1647 MHz
Core clock speed 1227 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,398 gflops 2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1792 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 137.4 GTexel / s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.3 GB / s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5