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Accelerate your creativity with NVIDIA® Quadro® - the world’s most powerful workstation graphics.The NVIDIA Quadro K420 delivers power-efficient 3D application performance and capability. 1 GB/2 GB of DDR3 GPU memory with fast bandwidth enables you to create complex 3D models, and a flexible single-slot and low-profile form factor makes it compatible with even the most space and power-constrained chassis. Plus, an all-new display engine drives up to four displays with DisplayPort 1.2 support for ultra-high resolutions like 3840x2160 @ 60 Hz with 30-bit color. Quadro cards are certified with a broad range of sophisticated professional applications, tested by leading workstation manufacturers, and backed by a global team of support specialists, giving you the peace of mind to focus on doing your best work. Whether you’re developing revolutionary products or telling spectacularly vivid visual stories, Quadro gives you the performance to do it brilliantly.
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3D Graphics Architecture
- Scalable geometry architecture
- Hardware tessellation engine
- FXAA/TXAA dedicated anti-aliasing engine1
- Bindless Textures1
- Shader Model 5.0 (OpenGL 4.53 and DirectX 11.24)
- Up to 16K x16K texture and render processing
- Transparent multisampling and super sampling
- 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
- 32-bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending
- Up to 64x full scene antialiasing (FSAA)
- Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)
- Dedicated H.264 Encoder1
- Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)
- NVIDIA GPU Boost (Automatically increases GPU engine throughput to maximize application performance.)
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Parallel Computing Capabilities
- Streaming Multi-Processor Design (SM 5.0) delivers high performance and energy efficiency
- Support for all the latest CUDA 6 features, including Unified Memory, Dynamic Parallelism and Dedicated Shared Memory
- Programming support for CUDA C, CUDA C++, DirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL, Python, and Fortran
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Advanced Display Features
- Simultaneously drive up to three displays when connected natively
- Support up to four displays when using DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream2
- Dual DisplayPort 1.2 outputs including Multi-Stream and HBR2 support2 (capable of supporting resolutions such as 4096x2160 @ 60Hz)
- Dual-link DVI-I (Supports 330MPixels/sec which enables resolutions like 2560x1600 @ 60Hz and 1920x1200 @ 120Hz)
Internal 400 MHz DAC DVI-I output (analog display up to 2048x1536 @ 85Hz) - DisplayPort to VGA, DisplayPort to DVI (single-link and dual-link) and DisplayPort to HDMI cables available (resolution support based on dongle specifications)
- HDCP support over DisplayPort, DVI & HDMI connectors
- 12-bit internal display pipeline (hardware support for 12-bit scanout on supported panels, applications and connection)
- Stereoscopic 3D display support including NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology, 3D DLP, Interleaved, and passive stereo
- OpenGL and Direct3D quad buffered stereo support
- Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling
- Support for NVIDIA® Quadro® Mosaic, NVIDIA® nView® multi-display technology, NVIDIA® Enterprise Management Tools
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DisplayPort and HDMI Digital Audio
- Support for the following audio modes:
- Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), DTS-HD, TrueHD - Output data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz (HDMI only), and 192 KHz (HDMI only)
- Word sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit
- This feature requires implementation by software applications and is not a stand-alone utility. Please contact quadrohelp@nvidia.com for details on availability.
- Available on Windows 7 or later and Linux.
- Product is based on a published Khronos Specification, and is expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Testing Process when available. Current conformance status can be found at www.khronos.org/conformance
- GPU supports DX 11.2 API, Hardware Feature Level 11_0
* The entire materials provided herein are for reference only. GIGABYTE reserves the right to modify or revise the content at anytime without prior notice.
* Advertised performance is based on maximum theoretical interface values from respective Chipset vendors or organization who defined the interface specification. Actual performance may vary by system configuration.
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* Due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated amount. - Support for the following audio modes:
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