NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
  • Around 40% better floating-point performance: 134.4 gflops vs 96 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 425 vs 146
  • 6.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 188 vs 30
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines 48 vs 32
Floating-point performance 134.4 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 425 vs 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 188 vs 30

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2744 vs 1626
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2744 vs 1626
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2744 vs 1626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2744 vs 1626

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
425
146
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
188
30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1626
2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1626
2744
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
PassMark - G3D Mark 425 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 188 30
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 2744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1626 2744

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G96
Launch date 3 September 2010 8 January 2009
Place in performance rating 1517 1519
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1500 MHz
Floating-point performance 134.4 gflops 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48 32
Texture fill rate 2.8 GTexel / s 9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32
Gigaflops 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size medium sized
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1048 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0