NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 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).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- 3.5x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 200 MHz
- 12x more pipelines: 48 vs 4
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
- 141.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 424 vs 3
- 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 188 vs 70
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 3 September 2010 vs 1 November 2008 |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 200 MHz |
Pipelines | 48 vs 4 |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 130 nm |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 424 vs 3 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 188 vs 70 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 424 | 3 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 188 | 70 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 1163 | |
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 | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | PowerVR SGX5 |
Code name | GF108 | GMA 500 |
Launch date | 3 September 2010 | 1 November 2008 |
Place in performance rating | 1517 | 1520 |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 200 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 134.4 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 130 nm |
Pipelines | 48 | 4 |
Texture fill rate | 2.8 GTexel / s | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt | |
Transistor count | 585 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Length | 145 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1048 MB | |
Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | |
Memory type | DDR3 | |
Shared memory | yes |