NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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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$ 399.00

$ 88.00

$ 311.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

2541% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

2421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1350 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

1276% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

2316% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

2040% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

1276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

1882% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

1842% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

93% significantly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

499% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

574% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

41 W

192% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

2241% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

875% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

566% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

508th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 GTX 1060 6GB vs Quadro K420 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the Quadro K420 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the Quadro K420.