NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE 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 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
  • 8.2x more maximum memory size: 1048 MB vs 128 MB
  • 6.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 60.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 426 vs 7
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 189 vs 187
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 16 February 2003
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 1048 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 275 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 426 vs 7
PassMark - G2D Mark 189 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
426
7
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
189
187
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark 426 7
PassMark - G2D Mark 189 187
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 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Kelvin
Code name GF108 NV28 A2
Launch date 3 September 2010 16 February 2003
Place in performance rating 1526 976
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 275 MHz
Floating-point performance 134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 2.8 GTexel / s 2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 36 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 145 mm 216 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 8.1
OpenGL 4.6 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1048 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 4.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 275 MHz
Memory type DDR3 SDR