HD Graphics P4700 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)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameGK107Haswell GT2
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)1 June 2013 (11 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 cores192160
Core clock speed876 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million392 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt86 Watt
Texture fill rate14.0226.00
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPS0.416 TFLOPS
ROPs162
TMUs1620

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 x16IGP
Length160 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)IGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 BitSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GB/2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed891 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidthUp to 29 GB/sno data

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 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.54.3
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.80
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 1 June 2013
Chip lithography 28 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 86 Watt

Quadro K420 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 109.8% lower power consumption.

HD Graphics P4700, on the other hand, has a 27.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K420 and HD Graphics P4700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K420 is a workstation graphics card while HD Graphics P4700 is a desktop one.


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