NVIDIA Quadro 2000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1 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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$ 129.99

$ 88.00

$ 41.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

185 points

98% 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

3 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

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3240 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3896 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

625 MHz

780 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

Identical

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

62 W

41 W

51% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

437th of 586

506th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro 2000 vs Quadro K420 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro K420 beats the Quadro 2000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Quadro K420 has a slightly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 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 Quadro 2000 at 62 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro K420 is faster than the Quadro 2000.