NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX Go540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 7.200GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)

Score

GeForce GT 420M

VS

Quadro FX Go540

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 400M

Generation

Quadro FX Go

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

225 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

7.200GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

NV43

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

QDFX-GO540-N-A4

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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