NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 550 MHz
6x more pipelines: 96 vs 2x 8
4.3x better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 40 Watt
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 394 vs 121
4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 658
4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 658

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 20 January 2009
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	192 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	394 vs 121
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2906 vs 658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2906 vs 658

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

4.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 6.0 billion / sec
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 88

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 6.0 billion / sec
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 88

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

394

121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2906

658

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2906

658

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	394	121
PassMark - G2D Mark	88	120
Geekbench - OpenCL	1583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	162.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2906	658
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2906	658

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G98
Launch date	3 September 2010	20 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1516	1519
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$131.43
Price now		$80.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	192 gflops	2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	2x 8
Texture fill rate	6.0 billion / sec	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	(G)DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA