NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs ATI Xbox 360 GPU

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM and ATI Xbox 360 GPU videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

ATI Xbox 360 GPU

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1048 MB vs 512 MB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 22 November 2005
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1048 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Xbox 360 GPU

2.9x more texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 240 vs 48
Around 79% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 134.4 gflops

Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	240 vs 48
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 134.4 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Xbox 360 GPU

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM	ATI Xbox 360 GPU
PassMark - G3D Mark	426
PassMark - G2D Mark	189
Geekbench - OpenCL	1161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	109.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	8.55
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1626

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM	ATI Xbox 360 GPU
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	Xenos
Launch date	3 September 2010	22 November 2005
Place in performance rating	1526	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	134.4 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48	240
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	232 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	N / A
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1048 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3