Quadro K420 and GeForce FX 5600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro K420 vs GeForce FX 5600
Quadro K420
768
GeForce FX 5600
12
Quadro K420
GeForce FX 5600
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
GK107
NV31
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2014
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
876 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
80 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.02
1.300
Memory type
128 Bit
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 29 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
DirectX
12
9.0a
CUDA
3.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-