AMD Fiji
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
AMD Fiji
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
905
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Fermi
Fiji
Code name
GF108
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
3 September 2010 (11 years ago)
$26
Price now
$310
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Value for money
0.03
Fiji
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

4096
Pipelines
96
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Core clock speed
500 MHz
8,900 million
Transistor count
585 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
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Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
192 gflops
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CUDA cores
96
4096
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
8,900 million
Number of transistors
585 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
23 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
(G)DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 API
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Fiji and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Fiji or NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Fiji
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Fiji
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Fiji
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Fiji
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Fiji
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Fiji

Cheaper ($26 vs $310)

More pipelines (4096 vs 96)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

0.98% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Fiji or NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M .

AMD Fiji versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Fiji
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M