NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1493MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile +895%

1.911 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2017

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1493 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

5

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.89 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.86 GFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.911 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GP107

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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