FirePro W4300 vs Quadro K1200

Place in performance ranking	494	495
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	4.81	4.55
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	GM107	Bonaire
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	28 January 2015 (9 years old)	1 December 2015 (8 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$321.97	no data
Current price	$124 (0.4x MSRP)	$129

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K1200 has 6% better value for money than FirePro W4300.

Technical specs

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	768
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,870 million	2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	35.97	44.64
Floating-point performance	1,151 gflops	1,428 gflops

Size and 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 x16
Length	160 mm	171 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 80 GB/s	96 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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	4x mini-DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data

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 support

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

DirectX	12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5	6.3
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
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 7.53
+0.8%

FirePro W4300 7.47

Quadro K1200 outperforms FirePro W4300 by 1% 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 2916
+0.8%

FirePro W4300 2894

Quadro K1200 outperforms FirePro W4300 by 1% in Passmark.