NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

93 points
Identical
93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
Identical
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1507 points
2347 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1841 points
2798 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

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

28.51 GB/s
28.83 GB/s
1% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W
9% slightly lower TDP
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.50 Gigapixels/s
6.48 Gigapixels/s
84% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

14.02 Gigatexels/s
25.92 Gigatexels/s
84% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192
384
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
32
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

511th of 586
508th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Quadro K420 vs GeForce 820M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 820M beats the Quadro K420 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K420 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the GeForce 820M at 45 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 GeForce 820M over the Quadro K420.

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