GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs Quadro K420

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking901not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.08no data
Power efficiency3.26no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK107AD103
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)March 2024 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)$96.67 $599

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 cores1925888
Core clock speed876 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate14.02455.4
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs16184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 4.0 x16
Length160 mm240 mm
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 BitGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount1 GB/2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 29 GB/s504.2 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
HDMI-+

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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB/2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 200 Watt

Quadro K420 has 387.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 AD103, on the other hand, has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K420 and GeForce RTX 4070 AD103. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K420 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K420
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