NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
VS
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
VS
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

General info

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

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Place in performance rating
1798
0.33
Value for money (0-100)
0.02
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
G98
Code name
Ellesmere
Workstation
Type
Workstation
20 January 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
24 April 2017
$131.43
Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$201 (1.5x MSRP)
Price now
$1544
G98
GPU code name
no data
Workstation
Market segment
no data

Technical specs

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

8
Pipelines
2304
550 MHz
Core clock speed
1243 MHz
210 million
Transistor count
5,700 million
65 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
4.400
Texture fill rate
179.0
2x 22.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
2x 5,728 gflops
8
Pipelines / CUDA cores
no data
210 million
Number of transistors
no data
40 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
305 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 NVS 420 and AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
256 MB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1400 MHz
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
11.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 and AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is the additional functionality.

API support

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

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 and AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 NVS 420 or AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
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 NVS 420

0.34% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($201 (1.5x MSRP) vs $1544)

Less power consumption (40 Watt vs 250 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (256 MB vs 16 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

More pipelines (2304 vs 8)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 65 nm)

More memory bandwidth (224.0 GB/s vs 11.2 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 or AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris?

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

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 versus AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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