GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Quadro K4200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking421not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.20no data
Power efficiency7.13no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK104GM206
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)26 November 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$854.99 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 cores13441024
Core clock speed771 MHz1176 MHz
Boost clock speed784 MHz1201 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Wattno data
Texture fill rate87.8176.86
Floating-point processing power2.107 TFLOPS2.46 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11264

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1753 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s112.2 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA3.05.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 26 November 2015

GTX 960 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K4200 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K4200 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 960 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K4200
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