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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

424

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
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
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	GF108	GMA 500
Launch date	3 September 2010	1 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1518	1520
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
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
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
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