Quadro NVS 420 and Quadro FX 600 PCI - video card comparison
Quadro NVS 420
Quadro FX 600 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G98
NV34 A1
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
January 2009
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 22.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
8
-
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
4.400
1.080
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
480 MHz
Memory bandwidth
11.2 GB/s
7.68 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A