NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M +1126%

2.355 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce GTX 965M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

935 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.80 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.60 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.355 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GM206S

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GR-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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