ATI Radeon HD 3690 vs Quadro K1200

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking525not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.51no data
Power efficiency11.80no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGM107RV670
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)30 March 2008 (16 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 cores512320
Core clock speed1058 MHz670 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate35.9710.72
Floating-point processing power1.151 TFLOPS0.4288 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3216

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 2.0 x16
Length160 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 BitGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz830 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 80 GB/s26.56 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-DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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.

DirectX1210.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 30 March 2008
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 75 Watt

Quadro K1200 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K1200 and Radeon HD 3690. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K1200 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 3690 is a desktop one.


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