NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M 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 6 months late

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

8

96

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G94

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

240 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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