AMD FirePro W7100 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare AMD FirePro W7100 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K420

Price

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$ 189.96

$ 88.00

$ 101.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1150 points

1136% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

25868 points

1616% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25403 points

1359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24202 points

1214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

27600 points

1401% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

920 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

461% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

41 W

265% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.44 Gigapixels/s

740% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

103 Gigatexels/s

634% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

833% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

599% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

255th of 586

511th of 586

Family

The product line

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

FirePro W7100 vs Quadro K420 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the FirePro W7100 GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

In our comparison, the FirePro W7100 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the FirePro W7100 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K420 has a significantly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the FirePro W7100 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the FirePro W7100 over the Quadro K420.