NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA Quadro P600

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P600 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro P600

Price

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$ 88.00

$ 60.00

$ 28.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

93 points

668 points

618% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1350 points

10634 points

687% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1507 points

11181 points

641% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1740 points

10334 points

493% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1841 points

11181 points

507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1838 points

9764 points

431% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

780 MHz

1354 MHz

73% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

64.13 GB/s

124% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W

40 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.50 Gigapixels/s

24.91 Gigapixels/s

610% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

14.02 Gigatexels/s

37.37 Gigatexels/s

166% 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 586

296th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K420 vs Quadro P600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro P600 GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

The Quadro P600 has a significantly 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 Quadro P600 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro P600 has a slightly lower TDP at 40 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 Quadro P600 over the Quadro K420.