NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD FirePro S4000X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD FirePro S4000X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 2GB VRAM FirePro S4000X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)

AMD FirePro S4000X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro S4000X +416%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

FirePro S4000X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 400M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Venus

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

Venus XT

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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