Quadro K420 vs Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro K420 and Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro K420 stacks up against Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri, check out specs charts below.
Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri

Main Specs

  Quadro K420 Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type 128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB/2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro K420 is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri - with GCN.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro K420 is 156 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri.
  • Quadro K420 and Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 7−8
ultra / 1080p 0−1 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 9−10 18−20
medium / 1080p 1−2 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 180% more, than Quadro K420.

Full Specs

  Quadro K420 Radeon R7 384 Cores Kaveri
Architecture Kepler GCN
Code name GK107 Kaveri Spectre
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 22 July 2014 14 January 2014
Pipelines 192 384
Core clock speed 876 MHz 720 MHz
Transistor count 1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 14.02
Floating-point performance 336.4 gflops
Length 160 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.2
Shader Model 5
OpenGL 4.5
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan +
CUDA 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 11 Mh/s
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
Width 1" (2.5 cm)
Number of simultaneous displays 4
nView Desktop Management +
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