NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
1856 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 41W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K420
0.336 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
+1527%
5.468 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Quadro K420
214
RTX A500 Embedded
+1128%
2628
Graphics Card
Jul 2014
Release Date
Mar 2022
Quadro
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
435 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
192
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.504 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
14.02 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
336.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
14.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
41W
TDP
20W
200 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA107S
GK107-301-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
