GeForce GT 420M and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1152 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
33.10
Memory type
(G)DDR3
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131