NVIDIA GRID K520 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID K520 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID K520 +10304%

2.289 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

GRID K520

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Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Jan 2009

GRID

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

8

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.289 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

95.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G98

-

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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