NVIDIA Quadro M1200 Mobile

NVIDIA Quadro M1200 Mobile is a Maxwell-generation mobile workstation GPU built around the GM107 chip. It was released on 2017-01-10, manufactured by TSMC on a 28 nm process, and contains 1,870 million transistors on a 148 mm² die. The database places it at the 50th percentile of all GPUs, while its benchmark array is empty and its average benchmark score is recorded as 0.

How It Compares

The nearestRivals collection for the Quadro M1200 Mobile is empty. That means there are no rival names, no rival scores, and no deltaPct values to report. Because the fact pack does not list a single nearest rival, this section cannot provide a per-rival comparison paragraph for any competing GPU.

The only positional metric is percentileVsAllGpus: 50, which places the M1200 at the midpoint of the database's all-GPU distribution. The generation field identifies the card as Quadro Maxwell-M (Mx200), and the lineage fields list Quadro Kepler-M as predecessor and Quadro Pascal-M as successor. No benchmark scores accompany either of those names, so no exact percentage lead or deficit against those generations can be calculated from the data.

The empty nearestRivals array is itself useful information: the database has not classified any other GPU as a close neighbor for this product. Any statement that the M1200 is faster or slower than a named card would require data the fact pack does not contain. The supported conclusion is limited to the 50th-percentile ranking and the hardware characteristics recorded in the JSON.

Who Should Consider It

The M1200 is an MXM Module with an MXM-A (3.0) bus interface, not a desktop card. That makes the practical audience narrow: owners of laptops or other portable systems designed around an MXM-A 3.0 socket. Because the display outputs are listed as Portable Device Dependent, the host system determines which physical video connectors are available, so the GPU cannot promise a fixed set of output ports.

The memory configuration is 4 GB GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus with 80.19 GB/s of bandwidth. This is the resource pool for render targets, textures, and geometry data. Workloads that fit within 4 GB will use the full buffer; workloads that expect to exceed 4 GB will be limited by capacity. The card is better suited to moderate-size scenes than to high-resolution rendering with very large texture sets.

Compute capability is fixed by the hardware: 640 shading units, 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and an FP32 rate of 1,469.4 GFLOPS. Applications that are shader-bound or compute-bound will be constrained by that ceiling. API support includes DirectX 12 (11_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so the card can run older DirectX 11-era software as well as current OpenGL and Vulkan workstation titles.

Because production status is end-of-life, the M1200 is not a reasonable choice for a fresh system build. The sensible use case is replacement or repair of an existing Maxwell-generation mobile workstation with an MXM-A 3.0 slot. No benchmark scores are stored for this card, so a purchase decision cannot be justified by synthetic performance data; it has to be based on socket compatibility, memory capacity, bandwidth, API support, and the 45 W power envelope.

Power and Cooling

The TDP is 45 W, the only thermal specification given in the fact pack. The power connectors field is None, meaning the module does not require auxiliary power cables. The card is powered through the MXM Module connection, and the bus interface is MXM-A (3.0), which defines the electrical and physical mating standard.

The suggested PSU field is null, so the database provides no recommended power-supply wattage. There is no desktop power-supply recommendation to repeat. The slot width is MXM Module, so installation depends on an MXM socket in the host laptop or portable system.

Dimensions are not recorded: length, height, and width are all null in the fact pack. That means cooler compatibility cannot be assessed from this page. The only useful thermal input is the 45 W TDP, which should be considered when checking whether the existing laptop cooling solution can handle the module.

FAQ

Q: What architecture and chip does the Quadro M1200 Mobile use?

A: It uses the Maxwell architecture with the GM107 chip. It is manufactured by TSMC on a 28 nm process, with 1,870 million transistors on a 148 mm² die and a transistor density of 12.6M per mm².

Q: What is the memory configuration?

A: It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit bus and 80.19 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock is 1253 MHz, described as 5 Gbps effective.

Q: Does it require extra power connectors?

A: No. The power connectors field is None, and the TDP is 45 W, so the module is expected to run from the MXM connection.

Q: What API support does it have?

A: It supports DirectX 12 at the 11_0 feature level, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Q: Is the Quadro M1200 Mobile still in production?

A: No. The production status is end-of-life. It was released on 2017-01-10, with predecessor Quadro Kepler-M and successor Quadro Pascal-M.

Q: Are there benchmark scores for this GPU?

A: The benchmarks array is empty, and the average benchmark score is 0. The only ranking value is percentileVsAllGpus: 50, which places it at the midpoint of all GPUs in the database.

Benchmark Performance

The benchmark records for the M1200 are absent. The benchmarks array is empty, the average benchmark score is 0, and nearestRivals contains no entries. As a result, there are no exact deltaPct values to quote and no supported way to say that this GPU is a certain percentage ahead of or behind another named product.

The single quantitative ranking signal is percentileVsAllGpus: 50. That is a positional rank, not a performance percentage. It indicates the M1200 sits at the midpoint of the all-GPU distribution, but it does not represent half the performance of any specific card.

The fixed rates in the fact pack are the closest available substitutes for measured scores. The base clock is 991 MHz and the boost clock is 1148 MHz. With 640 shading units, 40 TMUs, and 16 ROPs, the pixel rate is 18.37 GPixel/s and the texture rate is 45.92 GTexel/s. FP32 compute is 1,469.4 GFLOPS, and no FP16 value is listed, so FP16 throughput is not documented.

These numbers describe the hardware ceiling, not application performance. A workload that is pixel-rate-bound will be measured against 18.37 GPixel/s; a texture-bound workload will be measured against 45.92 GTexel/s; a compute-bound workload will be measured against 1,469.4 GFLOPS. Without benchmark results, translating those ceilings into actual frames per second or render times is not possible from this page.

Memory Subsystem

The memory subsystem consists of 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus. The memory clock is 1253 MHz, listed as 5 Gbps effective, and the resulting bandwidth is 80.19 GB/s. That bandwidth is the maximum rate at which data can move between the GPU and VRAM.

The 128-bit bus is a structural limitation. At 5 Gbps effective per pin, the card reaches 80.19 GB/s, and that is the full memory pipe. The 640 shading units and 40 TMUs all depend on that same pipe, so texture fetches and shader data reads share the available bandwidth.

For high-resolution work, the 4 GB capacity is the hard boundary for simultaneous color buffers, depth buffers, render targets, and textures. When the working set exceeds 4 GB, performance will be constrained by the fact that the data cannot all reside in local VRAM. The 16 ROPs work with the 128-bit memory path to produce the 18.37 GPixel/s pixel rate, which is also tied to the memory system's throughput.

The memory clock at 1253 MHz with 5 Gbps effective is the speed component of that equation. Users considering this card should look at both the capacity and the bandwidth: 4 GB sets how much data can be held, while 80.19 GB/s sets how fast that data can be fed to the GPU. In high-resolution rendering, either one can become the limiting factor, and the fact pack does not include benchmark data to show which limit is reached first.