Quadro K420: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro K420 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.93% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro K420 sales 22 July 2014 at a recommended price of $96.67 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB/2 GB of 128-bit memory clocked at 0.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 29 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 41 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro K420: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 901 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.08 | |
| Power efficiency | 3.28 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 22 July 2014 (10 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $96.67 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
Quadro K420's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K420's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 876 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,270 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 41 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 14.02 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3364 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K420 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 K420: 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 | 1 GB/2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 891 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 29 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K420. 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 | 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro K420. 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 K420, 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 | 3.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K420. 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.
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.
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.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 CUDA
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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K420 is FireStream 9170, which is slower by 13% and lower by 35 positions in our ranking.
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