NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF108 G94
GPU variant N11P-GE-A1 G94 GL-U
Architecture Fermi Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 585 million 505 million
Die size 116 mm² 240 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Sep 3rd, 2010
Generation GeForce 400M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 300M
Successor GeForce 500M

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 550 MHz
Shader clock 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 768 MB
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 38.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96 64
TMUs 16 32
ROPs 4 12
SM count 2 8
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB 48 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.000 GPixel/s 6.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.000 GTexel/s 17.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 192.0 GFLOPS 176.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 16.00 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 23 W 59 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Slot width Single-slot
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W
Power connectors None
Board number P744

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 2.1 1.1
Shader model 5.1 4.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 30th, 2009
Generation Quadro FX
Production End-of-life
Launch price 489 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 26 in our database

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