AMD Radeon HD 7480D vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7480D and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7480D

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7480D

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 614 MHz vs 550 MHz
8x more pipelines: 128 vs 2x 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 281 vs 121
2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1704 vs 658
2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1704 vs 658

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 September 2012 vs 20 January 2009
Core clock speed	614 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	128 vs 2x 8
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	281 vs 121
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1704 vs 658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1704 vs 658

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 119

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7480D
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

120

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

281

121

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1704

658

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1704

658

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7480D	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Geekbench - OpenCL	694
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	348
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	120
PassMark - G3D Mark	281	121
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1704	658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1704	658

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7480D	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 3	Tesla
Code name	Trinity	G98
Launch date	26 September 2012	20 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1499	1502
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$131.43
Price now		$80.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.61
Technical info
Boost clock speed	724 MHz
Core clock speed	614 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	128	2x 8
Floating-point performance		2x 22.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Transistor count		210 million
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None