NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 561 MHz
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 96 vs 72
• Around 19% better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 162 gflops
• Around 96% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 45 Watt
• Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 90 vs 70
• Around 87% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1731 vs 926
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 1450
• Around 87% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1731 vs 926
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 1450

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

• 2.2x more texture fill rate: 13.46 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• 2.8x more memory clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 800 MHz
• Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 467 vs 405
• 4.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7043 vs 1583

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	405 467
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	90 70
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	1583 7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1731 926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 1450
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1731 926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 1450

Compare specifications (specs)