NVIDIA Quadro K420
VS
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
NVIDIA Quadro K420
VS
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

723
Place in performance rating
389
4.65
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Kepler
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
GK107
Code name
Navi 14
Workstation
Type
Workstation
22 July 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
10 February 2020 (1 year ago)
$96.67
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$245 (2.5x MSRP)
Price now
$2381
0.74
Value for money
1.87
GK107
GPU code name
Navi 14
Workstation
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

192
Pipelines
1408
876 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1450 MHz
1,270 million
Transistor count
6,400 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
41 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
85 Watt
14.02
Texture fill rate
127.6
336.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
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192
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
no data
Boost clock speed
1450 MHz
1,270 million
Number of transistors
6,400 million
41 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
85 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
160 mm
Length
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None
Supplementary power connectors
None
1" (2.5 cm)
Width
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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 Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M can be seen in this section.

128 Bit
Memory type
GDDR6
1 GB/2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1782 MHz
Memory clock speed
12000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M, the size and number of monitors.

DVI-I DP
Display Connectors
No outputs
4
Number of simultaneous displays
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M is the additional functionality.

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

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
no data
5
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro K420 and AMD Radeon Pro W5500M 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 Quadro K420 or AMD Radeon Pro W5500M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K420
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K420
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K420
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K420
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K420
AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
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 Quadro K420

Cheaper ($245 (2.5x MSRP) vs $2381)

Less power consumption (41 Watt vs 85 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

9.53% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1408 vs 192)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB/2 GB)

So, NVIDIA Quadro K420 or AMD Radeon Pro W5500M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Pro W5500M .

NVIDIA Quadro K420 versus AMD Radeon Pro W5500M performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro K420
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon Pro W5500M