NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (41W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
2112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K420
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
+1591%
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2014
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
192
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.504 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
14.02 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
336.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
14.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
41W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK107-301-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
