Quadro NVS 420 and GRID K500 - video card comparison
Quadro NVS 420
GRID K500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
G98
GK104
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
January 2009
July 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
745 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 22.4 gflops
2x 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
8
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.400
95.36
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
11.2 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126