GeForce GT 420M and Radeon HD 8860 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Curacao
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
925 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
74.00
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
5600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131