NVIDIA Quadro K1200: specs and benchmarks

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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 7.52% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Quadro K1200: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking493
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money4.75
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameGM107
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$321.97
Current price$124 (0.4x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores512of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1058 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1124 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors1,870 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate35.97of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,151 gflopsof 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length160 mm
Width1" (2.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectorsNone

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 type128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed5000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidthUp to 80 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

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 ConnectorsmDP mDP mDP mDP
Number of simultaneous displays4

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.

DirectX12
Shader Model5
OpenGL4.5of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan+
CUDA5.0

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.

Quadro K1200 7.52

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 2915

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%

Quadro K1200 8708

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%

Quadro K1200 7896

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%

Quadro K1200 9073

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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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 FirePro W4300, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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