NVIDIA started Quadro K1200 sales 28 January 2015 at a recommended price of $321.97 . This is a Maxwell architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of 128-bit memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 80 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a 1-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 160 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 45 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro K1200: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	526
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.69
Power efficiency	11.64	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code name	GM107
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	28 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$321.97	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro K1200's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K1200's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	1,870 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	35.97	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	1.151 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K1200 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	160 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K1200: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	Up to 80 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K1200. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays	4

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro K1200. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+
Mosaic	+
nView Desktop Management	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro K1200, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	5.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K1200. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro K1200 7.64

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro K1200 2943

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Quadro K1200 8818

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Quadro K1200 7718

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Quadro K1200 9073

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Quadro K1200 26

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro K1200 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.