Radeon R7 A265 vs Quadro K1200

Place in performance ranking	497	787
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.97	0.07
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GM107	Opal
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	28 January 2015 (9 years ago)	9 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$321.97	no data
Current price	$124 (0.4x MSRP)	$324

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K1200 has 7000% better value for money than R7 A265.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	384
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	825 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	35.97	19.80
Floating-point performance	1,151 gflops	633.6 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	160 mm	no data
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	128 Bit	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 80 GB/s	28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	mDP mDP mDP mDP	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	5.0	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro K1200 7.56
+194%

R7 A265 2.57

Quadro K1200 outperforms Radeon R7 A265 by 194% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro K1200 2924
+194%

R7 A265 993

Quadro K1200 outperforms Radeon R7 A265 by 194% in Passmark.