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
GPU 1
GPU 2
424
3
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
188
70
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 1517 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