GeForce GT 420M and GameCube GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
GameCube GPU
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 5 (2000)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Flipper
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
August 2000
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Core clock speed
500 MHz
162 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
51 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
0.65
Memory type
(G)DDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
16 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
162 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
1.296 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
6.0+
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A