NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 37.16

$ 50.84 significantly less expensive

$ 88.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

119% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1350 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1933 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2151 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

1% slightly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

41 W

19% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

3.50 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

14.02 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586

508th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

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 730 vs Quadro K420 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 730 GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 730 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GT 730 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K420 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 730 over the Quadro K420.