Overview

Harness power-efficient 3D application performance inside your HP Workstation with the NVIDIA® Quadro® K420 1 GB graphics card. It’s an ideal solution for creating entry to medium complexity 3D models.

Features

Easily support your professional software application base with comprehensive ISV certifications. Enjoy fast performance from the power-efficient GPU and 1 GB of DDR3 memory.

Get low-profile, single-slot 3D performance that fits within your most compact workstation chassis, and the entire HP Z Workstation lineup, and doesn’t require external power.

Get an all-new display engine that drives up to four displays with DisplayPort 1.2 support for ultra-high resolutions like 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz with 30-bit color. Then, easily manage them with NVIDIA® Mosaic and NVIDIA® nView® technologies.

The NVIDIA Quadro K420 1GB is supported on the following HP Z Workstations: Z230 CMT/SFF, Z440, Z640, Z840

Form Factor

Low Profile, single slot

Graphics Controller

NVIDIA Quadro K420

GPU

GK107 with 192 CUDA cores

Power

41W

Bus Type

PCI Express x16, 2.0 compliant

Memory

Size:

1GB DDR3

Clock:

891MHz

Memory Bandwidth

29GB/s

Memory Width

128 bit

Connectors

One dual-link DVI-I connector

One DisplayPort connector

Factory Configured

No video cable adapter included

After market option kit

One DP-to-DVI adapter included with card

Maximum Resolution

VGA (via adapter cable)

2048 × 1536 × 32 bpp at 85 Hz

Dual-link DVI

2560 × 1600 × 32 bpp at 60 Hz (reduced blanking)

Single-link DVI

1920 × 1200 × 32 bpp at 60 Hz (reduced blanking)

DisplayPort 1.2

3840 × 2160 × 30 bpp at 60 Hz

Image Quality Features

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

Display Output

Maximum number of displays

2 direct attached monitors

4 using DP 1.2a with MST and HBR2 enabled monitors

Maximum number of DisplayPort displays possible (may require MST and/or HBR2)

4 1920×1200

2 2560×1600

1 3840×2160

Shading Architecture

Shader Model 5.0

Supported Graphics APIs

DX11, OpenGL 4.4

Programming support for CUDA C, CUDA C++, DirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL, Python, and Fortran

Available Graphics Drivers

Microsoft Windows 8.1

Microsoft Windows 8

Microsoft Windows 7

Linux – Full OpenGL implementation, complete with NVIDIA and ARB extensions