GeForce GT 420M and GT218 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 420M

GT218

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

N11P-GE

GT218

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2010

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Core clock speed

500 MHz

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CUDA cores

96

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Floating-point performance

192 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

16

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

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Texture fill rate

6.0 billion/sec

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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

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 API

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4