Quadro T1200 Mobile vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated285
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data74.72
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameEllesmereTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 no data

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 cores23041024
Core clock speed1000 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate155.191.20
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS2.918 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs14464

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).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s160.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 18 Watt

RX 480 Mobile has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

T1200 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 455.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and Quadro T1200 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T1200 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
NVIDIA Quadro T1200 Mobile
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