NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 4600 and 4GB VRAM Quadro K4200 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro K4200 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock784MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (108W vs 134W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4600
0.23 TFLOPS
Quadro K4200
+816%
2.107 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Jul 2014
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
771 MHz
-
Boost Clock
784 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
172.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1344
24
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
96 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.95 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
87.81 GTexel/s
-
-
-
230.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.107 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
87.81 GFLOPS
Board Design
134W
TDP
108W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G80
GPU Name
GK104
G80-850-A2
GPU Variant
GK104-850-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.681 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
484 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1 (1.0)
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.0
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
