Quadro K420 and GeForce GT 740 OEM - video card comparison
Quadro K420
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GK107
GK106
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2014
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
876 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
772.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
2,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
384
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.02
33.60
Memory type
128 Bit
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 29 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
DirectX
12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-