GeForce GT 420M and GeForce 310M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs GeForce 310M
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce 310M
118
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 310M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
N11M-GE1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
January 2010
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
606 / 625 MHz
CUDA cores
96
16
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
48.96 gflops
Gigaflops
-
73
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
14 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
4.848
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0