AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

VS

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe '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

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9173 PCIe +550%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2010

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

23W

-

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF108

E9170

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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