GeForce GTX 480 and Quadro K420 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Quadro K420
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Quadro K420
768
GeForce GTX 480
Quadro K420
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GF100
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
July 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
876 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
192
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
41 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
14.02
Memory type
GDDR5
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB/2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
DVI-I DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5
Vulkan
N/A
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+