The NVIDIA NVS 4200M (or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 4200M) is a business graphics card for laptops which is most likely based on the same core as the GeForce GT 520M. According to the Nvidia Homepage, the 4200M is allowed to be clocked up to 810MHz, compared to the 550MHz of the GT 520M. However, the clock rates of the NVS 4200M in the Dell Latitude 6420 is similar to the GT 520M.
The NVS series is optimized for business applications and stability and may therefore perform a bit worse in games due to the special drivers and BIOS optimizations.
The gaming performance may be a bit worse compared to similar clocked GeForce cards due to the stability optimizations of the NVS. In theory the raw performance of the chip is enough to run current games of 2010/2011 in low-medium details and resolutions.
As the GT 520M, the NVS4200M should support PureVideo HD (VP4) to accelerate HD videos and OpenCL / CUDA / DirectX Compute to use the render cores for other applications.
The graphics card supports HDMI 1.3 up to 1920x1080 and Multimode DisplayPort up to 2560x1600. Furthermore, 7.1 channel HD audio can be trasmitted over the HDMI port.
NVS Series
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| Architecture | Fermi | |||||||||
| Pipelines | 48 - unified | |||||||||
| Core Speed | 810 MHz | |||||||||
| Shader Speed | 1620 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit | |||||||||
| Memory Type | DDR3 | |||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB | |||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
| API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||
| technology | 40 nm | |||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 22.02.2011 | |||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.nvidia.com | |||||||||
- Average benchmark values for this graphics cardThe following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anno 2070 | 47.7 | 17.6 | 11.7 | |||
| Dirt 3 | 95 | 36 | 24 | 12 | ||
| Fifa 11 | 112 | 75 | ||||
| Mafia 2 | 41 | 28 | 22 | 14 | ||
| StarCraft 2 | 149 | 30 | 19 | |||
| Risen | 24 | 15 | ||||
| Need for Speed Shift | 33 | 23 | ||||
| Colin McRae: DIRT 2 | 46 | 19 | ||||
| Anno 1404 | 100.7 | 12.9 | ||||
| < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 2 2 1 | 3 4 1 | 7 1 | 3 | | |
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