FirePro M4000 vs GeForce GT 420M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro M4000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M4000
+259%
691
GeForce GT 420M
192
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Sep 2010
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
512
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
21.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
43.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
16.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Chelsea
GPU Name
GF108
Chelsea XT GL
GPU Variant
N11P-GE-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1