NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 35W)

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM +550%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 400M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Lexa

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

E9170

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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