Okay this is too surreal. I literally just started building a Frankenstein's Monster of a PC build with a Quadro K620, and even did some research online about it's performance out of curiosity, only to open YT this morning and be greeted by this lovely video XD
I managed to get an eGPU working on an HP Stream 11 so who knows. Should be fun to see how much performance I can get with this over the iGPU of the Atom that's in the laptop by default. @@yesterdaysram1375
honestly it's a fantastic card for emulation it also does a decent job at running these games some of which such as Battlefield 1 are just too much to handle but its performance in Battlefield 3 was surprisingly good
Hi @Fernando-Rodriguez mate, I'll be keen to see how it does in emulation, a video for later on. Yeah, it did OK, and for £15.00 it's not a bad buy at all. I was expecting a little more as I was very impressed with the GTX 750 1GB, but we've seen how GDDR5 improves performance. Nearly 60fps in BF3 isn't too shabby at all, would do even better in BF4. Cheers, Bob.
Add another subscriber 😊 Nice to see someone showing you can still use older tech , all i keep getting in my feed are clones building the greatest gaming pcs ever . Plus i saw the I.T crowd menioned .. im definitely in then lol
Cheers @Thepigeons377 thanks for subscribing mate. I think there's still life in some older tech, and some of it is at pocket money prices. I stick to stuff that's less than £50 as this is just a hobby. More I.T. Crowd references? I'll see what I can do :) Cheers, Bob.
Hi @PatientXero607 and thanks for your comment mate, I hadn't thought of that, I'm currently using a GTX 1050 for transcoding but the K620 would be a neater solution. Cheers, Bob.
Dang! good stuff, thanks for the vid!! although that cpu bottleneck gave me a really bad feeling, for some reason i felt performance would "feel" way better if the bottleneck didn't exist. While we are already seeing the gpu maxing out almost all the time, that bottleneck does produce frametime graph spikes which makes gameplay feel bad. I have a low profile Radeon R7 250 2GB, got it for almost 15 euros too, i dont game with it on 1080p, but it did solid frames especially that I had it paired with an i3 9100F and 16 gigs of ram, and most games are on an SSD. I made that build for people who might've wanted a solid work pc with a relatively okay graphics card. It ran fortnite, gta 5, csgo and valorant on okay frames. Good channel, definitely subscribed!
Hi @eddyboicollins, glad you liked the video mate, and thanks for subscribing! The high CPU usage in the video comes down to recording with OBS in software, benchmarks were taken on a second run without recording. Although, I agree I need to add a better CPU, and more RAM. I have an i7 6700, and more RAM, which will be going in at an appropriate time. I'm waiting for a Coffee Lake low profile machine to come down below £50.00, that might take a while. Your R7 250 machine sounds cool, I bet your faster CPU and additional memory really helps with performance. Cheers, Bob
months later the P620 becomes a better choice, it blows the 750ti out of the water while consuming only 30W and has NVENC support which comes in handy whenever I need it. and I only got it for about the same price
Hi @bennybouken and thanks for your comment mate. I have a P620, and agree it's a better card all round, however, in the UK, I see them going on eBay for about 35-40GBP, I paid 40GBP for mine. I've see the Quadro P400 come down into that price range, I picked one up for 20GBP, but I'm not sure if it will beat a K620, we'll see soon! Cheers, Bob.
Hey @GamerGeezer and thanks for your comment mate, yeah, it'll do well with older and indie titles. Found it just a tad too slow for more modern stuff, which was a shame, it's probably the DDR3 memory. Cheers, Bob.
You can see that in overwatch the first round is always kind of a mess because shaders are being compiled and some sort of this so the CPU is at 100% usage. That's the bottleneck, the performance will be much better after that first round
Hi @hellcat3981 and thanks for your comment mate. It might be CPU, the benchmark run was taken after the video, so not sure if shaders were still compiling. Both cards had trouble with Overwatch 2, so it's some other part of the system that was common to all. I do have an i7 6700 to go in this system at some point, I'm sure that will help. Cheers, Bob.
Excellent video! Thanks! Those cards are really good for the money. It would be interesting to see the Quadro K620 VS R7 430 i wonder which one is better.
Hi @GoYiTsU and thanks for your comment mate. According to TechPowerUp, the R7 430 has the same specs as the R7 250 I was using, but a lower core and memory clock. This would make it slower than the Quadro K620, but the specs on these low end cards seems to vary. I'm interested in seeing what an Oland card can do with a 128-bit memory bus AND GDDR5 memory. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 Oh i see, i didn't check specs so i assumed that the 430 was better, i mean higher number in the same series mean better, but is not the same in this case. Hey check out the R9 350, That is a really good low budget card (the people's card xD) I think it is better than the k620, but i'm not completly sure cause you can't find the exact specs of that card because it's a mobile and desktop hybrid that almost nobody knows.
Hey @yesterdaysram1375 mate, yeah AMD recycled many of the same GPUs through the HD 7000/8000, 200, 300 and 400 series. I had a look for the R9 350. the specifications sound identical to the HD 7750, I've got something with the same Cape Verde GPU and I'm looking forward to testing it. Cheers, Bob.
@InSaynUFC Nice one mate! I'm liking the K620 more and more in comparison to other low-profile budget cards. Didn't seem quite enough for 1080p, but maybe 900p will give a better experience, and there's always 720p, which really isn't too bad once you get used to it. Cheers, Bob.
there are only 2 sensible use cases of this card i can think of: 1. video adapter for a pc without integrated graphics 2. video transcoder for a budget server
Hi @macedonianlad and thanks for your comment mate, while the K620 will do those things. After looking at a more expensive low profile GPU that performs worse, the little K620 doesn't look so bad at £15.00. Maybe need to drop the resolution to 900p. Cheers, Bob.
Hi @DemonAstaScary, sorry if this is a double-reply, it's saying I haven't responded. The Quadro K620 was released 10 years ago, that price is to pick them up second hand off eBay. Cheers, Bob.
Ah sorry @pro_mon1045, misread, GTX 750 1gb is faster, it uses the same core, but has more shaders (512 vs 384) and has faster memory (GDDR5.) The 1GB VRAM buffer can be detrimental. but it depends upon the title. Cheers, Bob.
So mines coming in the post by Thursday. Only different thing is that I’m gonna use all low setting or maybe a little high but mainly low and have 16gb ram? Would that run Fortnite alright or would it be terrible? I was gonna get a gt 1030 but that’s out of budget for me.
Hey @dq2rk144 and thanks for your comment mate. When I tested the K620 in Fortnite it did OK, with an average frame rate of around 50fps. The percentile lows were better than an AMD R7 250, but you might want to drop the resolution to 900p or adjust the scaling to improve FPS. Run it from an SSD, if you can, and your 16GB of RAM will help. If you've got a better CPU than my i5 6500 you should be alright. Cheers, Bob.
Hi @DemonAstaScary, thanks for your comment mate. The CPU is the i5 6500, but I think I was recording with OBS with CPU encoding in this one. Even without recording it can struggle in some titles, such as Overwatch 2 and PUBG. Cheers, Bob.
Hi @nairobiphoet and thanks for your comment mate. I'm assuming that's Modern Warfare? I haven't tested the Quadro K620 on Modern Warfare, I'd imagine it would struggle. I guess the answer really depends on your budget and what you're upgrading. Cheers, Bob.
Hi @cristianoCR7-if7iq it was OK, better than some I've tested. According to the minimum specifications for efootball 24 it asks for a GTX 660 Ti or an HD 7790, both of which are faster than the Quadro K620 so I'm not sure how well it will run. Cheers, Bob.
Hi @nashcomp and thanks for your comment mate. I don't have a DDR5 GT 730 to compare, so can't say for sure, it would also depend on whether the GT 730 had a 64-bit or 128-bit memory bus. The R7 250 with DDR3 was slightly faster than the R5 430 with a 64-bit bus and GDDR5 memory. Cheers, Bob.
Okay this is too surreal. I literally just started building a Frankenstein's Monster of a PC build with a Quadro K620, and even did some research online about it's performance out of curiosity, only to open YT this morning and be greeted by this lovely video XD
Hey @xPLAYnOfficial, cheers mate. I hope it was entertaining and informative, what are you planning on running on your K620? Cheers, Bob.
I managed to get an eGPU working on an HP Stream 11 so who knows. Should be fun to see how much performance I can get with this over the iGPU of the Atom that's in the laptop by default. @@yesterdaysram1375
honestly it's a fantastic card for emulation it also does a decent job at running these games some of which such as Battlefield 1 are just too much to handle but its performance in Battlefield 3 was surprisingly good
Hi @Fernando-Rodriguez mate, I'll be keen to see how it does in emulation, a video for later on. Yeah, it did OK, and for £15.00 it's not a bad buy at all. I was expecting a little more as I was very impressed with the GTX 750 1GB, but we've seen how GDDR5 improves performance. Nearly 60fps in BF3 isn't too shabby at all, would do even better in BF4. Cheers, Bob.
Excellent video. Looking forward to more from your channel.
Hi @internziko, cheers mate, Bob.
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Nice to see someone showing you can still use older tech , all i keep getting in my feed are clones building the greatest gaming pcs ever . Plus i saw the I.T crowd menioned .. im definitely in then lol
Cheers @Thepigeons377 thanks for subscribing mate. I think there's still life in some older tech, and some of it is at pocket money prices. I stick to stuff that's less than £50 as this is just a hobby. More I.T. Crowd references? I'll see what I can do :) Cheers, Bob.
I tend to hunt these down for cheap NVENC H.264 transcoding. They really work in a pinch. I had one before I moved onto a P2000 to support H.265
Hi @PatientXero607 and thanks for your comment mate, I hadn't thought of that, I'm currently using a GTX 1050 for transcoding but the K620 would be a neater solution. Cheers, Bob.
Dang! good stuff, thanks for the vid!! although that cpu bottleneck gave me a really bad feeling, for some reason i felt performance would "feel" way better if the bottleneck didn't exist. While we are already seeing the gpu maxing out almost all the time, that bottleneck does produce frametime graph spikes which makes gameplay feel bad.
I have a low profile Radeon R7 250 2GB, got it for almost 15 euros too, i dont game with it on 1080p, but it did solid frames especially that I had it paired with an i3 9100F and 16 gigs of ram, and most games are on an SSD.
I made that build for people who might've wanted a solid work pc with a relatively okay graphics card.
It ran fortnite, gta 5, csgo and valorant on okay frames.
Good channel, definitely subscribed!
Hi @eddyboicollins, glad you liked the video mate, and thanks for subscribing!
The high CPU usage in the video comes down to recording with OBS in software, benchmarks were taken on a second run without recording. Although, I agree I need to add a better CPU, and more RAM. I have an i7 6700, and more RAM, which will be going in at an appropriate time. I'm waiting for a Coffee Lake low profile machine to come down below £50.00, that might take a while.
Your R7 250 machine sounds cool, I bet your faster CPU and additional memory really helps with performance.
Cheers, Bob
If that's an IT Crowd reference then Im subscribing.
Hi @daniels4338 mate, like jam, RAM seems to last for ages :) Cheers Bob.
months later the P620 becomes a better choice, it blows the 750ti out of the water while consuming only 30W and has NVENC support which comes in handy whenever I need it.
and I only got it for about the same price
Hi @bennybouken and thanks for your comment mate. I have a P620, and agree it's a better card all round, however, in the UK, I see them going on eBay for about 35-40GBP, I paid 40GBP for mine. I've see the Quadro P400 come down into that price range, I picked one up for 20GBP, but I'm not sure if it will beat a K620, we'll see soon! Cheers, Bob.
Just bought for 13.99 for streaming and light (2000s games and indie) gaming for the living room. Not bad!
Hey @GamerGeezer and thanks for your comment mate, yeah, it'll do well with older and indie titles. Found it just a tad too slow for more modern stuff, which was a shame, it's probably the DDR3 memory. Cheers, Bob.
You can see that in overwatch the first round is always kind of a mess because shaders are being compiled and some sort of this so the CPU is at 100% usage. That's the bottleneck, the performance will be much better after that first round
Hi @hellcat3981 and thanks for your comment mate. It might be CPU, the benchmark run was taken after the video, so not sure if shaders were still compiling. Both cards had trouble with Overwatch 2, so it's some other part of the system that was common to all. I do have an i7 6700 to go in this system at some point, I'm sure that will help. Cheers, Bob.
Excellent video! Thanks! Those cards are really good for the money.
It would be interesting to see the Quadro K620 VS R7 430 i wonder which one is better.
Hi @GoYiTsU and thanks for your comment mate. According to TechPowerUp, the R7 430 has the same specs as the R7 250 I was using, but a lower core and memory clock. This would make it slower than the Quadro K620, but the specs on these low end cards seems to vary. I'm interested in seeing what an Oland card can do with a 128-bit memory bus AND GDDR5 memory. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 Oh i see, i didn't check specs so i assumed that the 430 was better, i mean higher number in the same series mean better, but is not the same in this case.
Hey check out the R9 350, That is a really good low budget card (the people's card xD) I think it is better than the k620, but i'm not completly sure cause you can't find the exact specs of that card because it's a mobile and desktop hybrid that almost nobody knows.
Hey @yesterdaysram1375 mate, yeah AMD recycled many of the same GPUs through the HD 7000/8000, 200, 300 and 400 series. I had a look for the R9 350. the specifications sound identical to the HD 7750, I've got something with the same Cape Verde GPU and I'm looking forward to testing it. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 Ok thanks, i will be waiting for those videos!
Just bought a low profile one for $15, making my first low budget set up :)
@InSaynUFC Nice one mate! I'm liking the K620 more and more in comparison to other low-profile budget cards. Didn't seem quite enough for 1080p, but maybe 900p will give a better experience, and there's always 720p, which really isn't too bad once you get used to it. Cheers, Bob.
there are only 2 sensible use cases of this card i can think of:
1. video adapter for a pc without integrated graphics
2. video transcoder for a budget server
Hi @macedonianlad and thanks for your comment mate, while the K620 will do those things. After looking at a more expensive low profile GPU that performs worse, the little K620 doesn't look so bad at £15.00. Maybe need to drop the resolution to 900p. Cheers, Bob.
the manufacturer mustve been drunk while setting the price
Hi @DemonAstaScary, thanks for your comment mate, price is second hand, this GPU was released 10 years ago!
Hi @DemonAstaScary, sorry if this is a double-reply, it's saying I haven't responded. The Quadro K620 was released 10 years ago, that price is to pick them up second hand off eBay. Cheers, Bob.
Hey whats better gtx 750 1gb or this card
Hey @pro_mon1045 man, against a 1GB DDR3 GT 730? Easily the Quadro K620.
@@yesterdaysram1375 no GTX 750 1gb
Ah sorry @pro_mon1045, misread, GTX 750 1gb is faster, it uses the same core, but has more shaders (512 vs 384) and has faster memory (GDDR5.) The 1GB VRAM buffer can be detrimental. but it depends upon the title. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 thank you so much
So mines coming in the post by Thursday. Only different thing is that I’m gonna use all low setting or maybe a little high but mainly low and have 16gb ram? Would that run Fortnite alright or would it be terrible? I was gonna get a gt 1030 but that’s out of budget for me.
Hey @dq2rk144 and thanks for your comment mate. When I tested the K620 in Fortnite it did OK, with an average frame rate of around 50fps. The percentile lows were better than an AMD R7 250, but you might want to drop the resolution to 900p or adjust the scaling to improve FPS. Run it from an SSD, if you can, and your 16GB of RAM will help. If you've got a better CPU than my i5 6500 you should be alright. Cheers, Bob.
also whats your cpu? because its pretty much struggling. or its because of your recorder
oh yeah nvm i saw it in the description
Hi @DemonAstaScary, thanks for your comment mate. The CPU is the i5 6500, but I think I was recording with OBS with CPU encoding in this one. Even without recording it can struggle in some titles, such as Overwatch 2 and PUBG. Cheers, Bob.
Just wondering what are the best options for an upgrade to play modern games at higher framerates? games like call of duty?
Hi @nairobiphoet and thanks for your comment mate. I'm assuming that's Modern Warfare? I haven't tested the Quadro K620 on Modern Warfare, I'd imagine it would struggle. I guess the answer really depends on your budget and what you're upgrading. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 Yes , what would you recommend? My issue is finding something compatible with my PC that performs well
I don't think I've tested any low profile card with enough power for Modern Warfare yet, is it a low profile card your after? Cheers, Bob.
this card good for gaming? I bought it and I am afraid to regret it. Is it good for gaming and running efootball 24?
Hi @cristianoCR7-if7iq it was OK, better than some I've tested. According to the minimum specifications for efootball 24 it asks for a GTX 660 Ti or an HD 7790, both of which are faster than the Quadro K620 so I'm not sure how well it will run. Cheers, Bob.
@@yesterdaysram1375 Ok thanks, it's a good card ❤
This card maybe just equal with gt730 ddr5?
Hi @nashcomp and thanks for your comment mate. I don't have a DDR5 GT 730 to compare, so can't say for sure, it would also depend on whether the GT 730 had a 64-bit or 128-bit memory bus. The R7 250 with DDR3 was slightly faster than the R5 430 with a 64-bit bus and GDDR5 memory. Cheers, Bob.