Quadro K420 and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro K420 vs GeForce GT 720
Quadro K420
768
GeForce GT 720
628
Quadro K420
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
GK107
GK208B
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2014
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
876 MHz
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
192
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
14.02
12.75
Memory type
128 Bit
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
Up to 29 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-