Quadro K420 vs Radeon HD 7950

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro K420 and Radeon HD 7950. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Quadro K420 and Radeon HD 7950. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  Quadro K420 Radeon HD 7950
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 200 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Memory type 128 Bit GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB/2 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7950 has 387% more power consumption, than Quadro K420.
  • Quadro K420 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 7950 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon HD 7950 has 2 GB more memory, than Quadro K420.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro K420 is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon HD 7950 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Quadro K420 and Radeon HD 7950 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 7950 is 107 mm longer, than Quadro K420.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K420 is 532 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7950.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 35−40
ultra / 1080p 0−1 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 9−10 60−65
medium / 1080p 1−2 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7950 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 940% more, than Quadro K420.

Full Specs

  Quadro K420 Radeon HD 7950
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Code name GK107 Tahiti
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 22 July 2014 31 January 2012
Pipelines 192 1792
Core clock speed 876 MHz
Boost Clock 1250 MHz
Transistor count 1,270 million 4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 14.02 89.60
Floating-point performance 336.4 gflops 2,867 gflops
Length 160 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s
DirectX 12
Shader Model 5 5.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan +
CUDA 3.0
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.56 kh/s
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 11 Mh/s 381 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
PowerTune +
ZeroCore +
Design reference
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
CrossFire +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.78 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 13.86 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 250 Sol/s
Compute units 28
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
Width 1" (2.5 cm)
Number of simultaneous displays 4
nView Desktop Management +
AppAcceleration +
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