AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 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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$ 225.00

$ 88.00

$ 137.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

567% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

1677% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

829% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

813% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

1773% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

570% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

783% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

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

112 GB/s

292% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

41 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

440% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

170% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

166% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

308th of 586

508th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 550 vs Quadro K420 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the Quadro K420 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 550 has significantly more memory with 4 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 K420 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 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 Radeon RX 550 over the Quadro K420.