ATI Rage Fury MAXX vs GeForce GT 420M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1096not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.20no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code nameGF108Rage 4
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)1 October 1999 (25 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96no data
Core clock speed500 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors585 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.0000.25
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs162

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz143 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s1.144 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API6.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.51.2
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 1 October 1999
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 250 nm

GT 420M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 420M and Rage Fury MAXX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 420M is a notebook card while Rage Fury MAXX is a desktop one.


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