Quadro K420 and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
Quadro K420
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GK107
GP108
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2014
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
876 MHz
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
384
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.02
33.10
Memory type
128 Bit
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 29 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
3.0
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-