AMD FirePro M4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

VS

AMD FirePro M4000

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M4000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M4000 +259%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro M4000

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Chelsea

GPU Name

GF108

Chelsea XT GL

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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