Quadro K420 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro K420 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Quadro K420
768
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Quadro K420
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK107
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2014
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
876 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.02
199.0
Memory type
128 Bit
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 29 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
3.0
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-