NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD FirePro M7740

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD FirePro M7740

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M7740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)

AMD FirePro M7740 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.14GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro M7740 +333%

0.832 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

FirePro M7740

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Aug 2009

GeForce 400M

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

846 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

54.14GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

832.0 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

166.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

M97

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

M97XT-GL

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.826 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

137 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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