NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M 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 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 89% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 530 MHz
• 2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48
• Around 51% better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 127.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 65 Watt
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 367
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 86 vs 38
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 2376
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 2376

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M

• 2.1x more texture fill rate: 12.72 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
• 2x more memory clock speed: 1598 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	397 367
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	86 38
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 2376
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 2376

Compare specifications (specs)