NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
VS
NVIDIA Quadro K420
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
VS
NVIDIA Quadro K420

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

368
Place in performance rating
723
42.74
Value for money (0-100)
4.65
Fermi
Architecture
Kepler
GF114
Code name
GK107
Desktop
Type
Workstation
25 January 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
22 July 2014 (7 years ago)
$249
Launch price (MSRP)
$96.67
$180 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$245 (2.5x MSRP)
4.67
Value for money
0.74
GF114
GPU code name
GK107
Desktop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
192
822 MHz
Core clock speed
876 MHz
1,950 million
Transistor count
1,270 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
170 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
52.67
Texture fill rate
14.02
1,263.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
336.4 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1,950 million
Number of transistors
1,270 million
170 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
41 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
229 mm
Length
160 mm
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Width
1" (2.5 cm)

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
128 Bit
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB/2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
2004 MHz
Memory clock speed
1782 MHz
128.3 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP
no data
Number of simultaneous displays
4
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420 is the additional functionality.

no data
CUDA
3.0
no data
3D Vision Pro
+
no data
Mosaic
+
no data
nView Desktop Management
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
+
no data
Shader Model
5
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro K420 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti or NVIDIA Quadro K420 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro K420
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro K420
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro K420
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro K420
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro K420
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

10.69% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($180 (0.7x MSRP) vs $245 (2.5x MSRP))

More pipelines (384 vs 192)

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro K420

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (41 Watt vs 170 Watt)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti or NVIDIA Quadro K420?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti versus NVIDIA Quadro K420 performance benchmarks comparison

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