Quadro NVS 420: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Quadro NVS 420 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.31% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 420 sales 20 January 2009 at a recommended price of $131.43 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 11.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 40 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 420: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1322
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01
Power efficiency0.53of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG98
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date20 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$131.43 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro NVS 420's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 420's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed550 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors210 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.400of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.0224 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 420 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 420: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed700 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 420. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro NVS 420, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro NVS 420. 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.

NVS 420 0.31

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.

NVS 420 120

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro NVS 420 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro NVS 420's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


NVS 300 100
Quadro NVS 420 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro NVS 420 is FirePro 2270, which is faster by 19% and higher by 48 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro NVS 420:

FirePro V3900 535.48
FirePro 2270 119.35
Quadro NVS 420 100

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Community ratings

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