Tesla K40d 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)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK104GK110B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)22 November 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$854.99 $7,699

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 cores13442880
Core clock speed771 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speed784 MHz876 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rate87.81210.2
Floating-point processing power2.107 TFLOPS5.046 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs112240

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 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s288.4 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 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA3.03.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 22 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 245 Watt

Quadro K4200 has an age advantage of 8 months, and 126.9% lower power consumption.

Tesla K40d, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K4200 and Tesla K40d. We've got no test results to judge.


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