GeForce GT 420M and HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Gen. 8 (2015−2016)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Braswell
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
April 2016
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Boost clock speed
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640 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
320 MHz
CUDA cores
96
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Floating-point performance
192 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
12
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
64/128 Bit
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
11.2
CUDA
+
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OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
4.5
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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