GeForce GT 420 OEM vs Radeon Pro WX 4100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking465not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.17no data
Power efficiency13.19no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBaffinGF108
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date10 November 2016 (8 years ago)3 September 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores102448
Core clock speed1125 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed1201 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,000 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate76.862.800
Floating-point processing power2.46 TFLOPS0.1344 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs644

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s28.8 GB/s

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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2016 3 September 2010
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

Pro WX 4100 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 4100 and GeForce GT 420 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 4100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GT 420 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
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