NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 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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$ 129.95

$ 88.00

$ 41.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

647% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

663% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1350 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

610% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

486% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

439% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

412% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

68% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

36% slightly lower TDP

41 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

570% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

151% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586

509th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

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

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 1030 vs Quadro K420 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the Quadro K420 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Quadro K420 at 41 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 is better than the Quadro K420.