NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 23W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce MX250 +315%

0.797 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce MX250

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

937 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

3

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.61 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.46 GFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

797.2 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.91 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GP108B

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

74 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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