NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II

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NVIDIA Quadro K420

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 and 512MB VRAM Quadro Plex 1000 Model II to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (41W vs 640W)

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (33.60GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

Score

Quadro K420

VS

Quadro Plex 1000 Model II

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Quadro

Generation

Quadro Plex

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

525 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

33.60GB/s

Render Config

-

192

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.504 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

14.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.28 GTexel/s

-

336.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

14.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

41W

TDP

640W

200 W

Suggested PSU

1000 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

G70

GK107-301-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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