Radeon R9 390X2 vs Quadro K1200

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking524not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.49no data
Power efficiency11.71no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameGM107no data
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$321.97 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122
Core clock speed1058 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattno data
Texture fill rate35.97no data
Floating-point processing power1.151 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs32no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length160 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 type128 Bit512
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidthUp to 80 GB/sno data

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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPortno data
Number of simultaneous displays4no 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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12GDDR5
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Quadro K1200 and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K1200 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R9 390X2 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K1200
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AMD Radeon R9 390X2
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