AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
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Value for money (0-100)
0.33
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
Cedar
Code name
G98
Desktop
Type
Workstation
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Release date
20 January 2009 (12 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$131.43
$17.81
Price now
$201 (1.5x MSRP)
Cedar
GPU code name
G98
Desktop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
8
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Core clock speed
550 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
210 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
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Texture fill rate
4.400
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Floating-point performance
2x 22.4 gflops
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
8
292 million
Number of transistors
210 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
40 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420.

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Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
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Memory bus width
64 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
11.2 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $201 (1.5x MSRP))

More pipelines (80 vs 8)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 65 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

1.45% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cedar or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 .

AMD Cedar versus NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420