FirePro D700 and Quadro NVS 420 - video card comparison

FirePro D700

Quadro NVS 420

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Tahiti

G98

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

January 2009

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

850 MHz

550 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,482 gflops

2x 22.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

210 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

8

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

40 Watt

Texture fill rate

108.8

4.400

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5480 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

263.0 GB/s

11.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A