NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M +93%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce 9700M GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

99.20 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G96

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

NB9E-GE

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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