GeForce GTX 980MX vs Quadro K420

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking898not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.08no data
Power efficiency3.40no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK107GM204
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)1 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$96.67 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 cores1921664
Core clock speed876 MHz1050 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1178 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt148 Watt
Texture fill rate14.02122.5
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPS3.92 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs16104

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 3.0 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 BitGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB/2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 29 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
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 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA3.05.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 1 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB/2 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 148 Watt

Quadro K420 has 261% lower power consumption.

GTX 980MX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K420 and GeForce GTX 980MX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K420 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 980MX is a notebook one.


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