NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, 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
528 points
467% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS
13 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
11 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS
8 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
4 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1507 points
4950 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1841 points
4950 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB
Identical
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

504th of 586
322nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Quadro K420 vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon HD 6870 GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon HD 6870 is faster than the Quadro K420.

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