NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX, 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

195 points

109% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1350 points

5599 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1507 points

5764 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1740 points

5367 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1841 points

5680 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1838 points

5044 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

780 MHz

952 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.51 GB/s

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W

17 W

141% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.50 Gigapixels/s

8.16 Gigapixels/s

132% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

14.02 Gigatexels/s

24.48 Gigatexels/s

74% 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

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 586

435th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2016 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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 930MX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 930MX GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

The GeForce 930MX 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.

In addition, the GeForce 930MX has a significantly lower TDP at 17 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 930MX over the Quadro K420.