NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

NVIDIA Quadro K420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (21W vs 41W)

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro NVS 290

0.029 TFLOPS

Quadro K420 +1058%

0.336 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 290

VS

Quadro K420

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2014

Quadro NVS

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

192

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

16 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.504 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.02 GTexel/s

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

14.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

21W

TDP

41W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GK107

-

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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