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NVIDIA Quadro K1200: specs and benchmarks
Price now
798$
Games supported
68%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 1058 MHz
- Max video memory 4GB GDDR5
- Memory type 128-bit
- Memory clock speed 5000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2015
Performance
7.28
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro K1200 sales 28 January 2015 at a recommended price of $321.97. This is a Maxwell architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of 128-bit memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 80 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is 1-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 160 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 45 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
7.28%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro K1200: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 448 | |
| Value for money | 0.36 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GM107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 28 January 2015 (8 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $321.97 | |
| Current price | $798 (2.5x MSRP) | of 158889 (A100 PCIe) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Quadro K1200's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K1200's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1058 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1124 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 1,870 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 35.97 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,151 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K1200 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 160 mm | |
| Width | 1" (2.5 cm) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K1200: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | 128 Bit | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 80 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K1200. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | mDP mDP mDP mDP | |
| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro K1200. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| 3D Vision Pro | + | |
| Mosaic | + | |
| nView Desktop Management | + |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro K1200, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 | |
| Shader Model | 5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | + | |
| CUDA | 5.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K1200. 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.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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: 24%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
Octane Render OctaneBench
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Quadro K1200. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 132 Mh/s |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good Quadro K1200 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Quadro K1200 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K1200 is Radeon Pro V340 MxGPU, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro K1200 according to our statistics.
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