RTX A2000 Max-Q vs Quadro K1200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking527not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.69no data
Power efficiency11.64no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGM107GA106
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$321.97 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 cores5122560
Core clock speed1058 MHz682 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1207 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate35.9796.56
Floating-point processing power1.151 TFLOPS6.18 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs3280
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 4.0 x16
Length160 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 type128 BitGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 80 GB/s176.0 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Number of simultaneous displays4no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 95 Watt

Quadro K1200 has 111.1% lower power consumption.

RTX A2000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K1200 and RTX A2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K1200 is a workstation card while RTX A2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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