
Quadro FX 580 and Quadro K420 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro K420
Quadro FX 580
166
Quadro K420
768
Quadro FX 580
Quadro K420
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
G96C
GK107
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
April 2009
July 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
876 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
192
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
41 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
14.02
Memory type
GDDR3
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB/2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
DVI-I DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12
CUDA
1.1
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.5
Shader Model
4.0
5
Vulkan
N/A
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+