NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD FirePro M5800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD FirePro M5800

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (23W vs 26W)

AMD FirePro M5800 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro M5800 +170%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

FirePro M5800

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 400M

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Madison

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

Madison XT GL

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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