In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 Palit JetStream 2GB Edition are significantly better than the Nvidia Quadro K4200.

The GTX 770 has a 444 MHz higher core clock speed and 16 more Texture Mapping Units than the Quadro K4200. This results in the GTX 770 providing 68.1 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 770 has a 444 MHz higher core clock speed than the Quadro K4200 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 770 providing 14.2 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Quadro K4200 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 770, and so the Quadro K4200 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 770.

The Quadro K4200 has 2048 MB more video memory than the GTX 770, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GTX 770 has superior memory performance.

The GTX 770 has 51.5 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Quadro K4200, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 770 is much better than the Quadro K4200.

The Quadro K4200 has 1344 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 770 Palit JetStream 2GB Edition has 1536. However, the actual shader performance of the Quadro K4200 is 949 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 770 is 1846. The GTX 770 having 897 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 770 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Quadro K4200.

The Quadro K4200 requires 108 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 770 Palit JetStream 2GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the Quadro K4200 and a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GTX 770. The GTX 770 has been recommended a PSU with 50 Watts more than the Quadro K4200. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 770 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the Quadro K4200.