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GeForce 9600 GT and Quadro K420 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Quadro K420

GeForce 9600 GT
502
Quadro K420
768

GeForce 9600 GT

Quadro K420


Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name
G94
GK107

Market segment
Desktop
Workstation

Release date
February 2008
July 2014

Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-

Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None

SLI options
+
-

Core clock speed
650 MHz
876 MHz

CUDA cores
64
-

Floating-point performance
208 gflops
336.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
505 million
1,270 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
192

Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
41 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-

Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
14.02

Memory type
GDDR3
128 Bit

Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB/2 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1782 MHz

Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s

Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
DVI-I DP

Number of simultaneous displays
-
4

Multi monitor support
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-

DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12

CUDA
+
3.0

OpenCL
1.1
1.2

OpenGL
2.1
4.5

Shader Model
4.0
5

Vulkan
N/A
+

3D Vision Pro
-
+

Mosaic
-
+

nView Desktop Management
-
+