NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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NVIDIA Quadro K420 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared a Professional market GPU: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 and a Desktop platform GPU: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (41W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K420 +342%

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Quadro K420

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GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 8

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.504 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

14.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

336.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

14.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

G84

GK107-301-A2

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

41W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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