GeForce GT 240 and Quadro K420 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 240 vs Quadro K420
GeForce GT 240
525
Quadro K420
768
GeForce GT 240
Quadro K420
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GT215
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
November 2009
July 2014
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
876 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
192
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
41 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
14.02
Memory type
GDDR5
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
1 GB/2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVIVGAHDMI
DVI-I DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.2
4.5
Shader Model
4.1
5
Vulkan
N/A
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+