NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 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, 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 - T-Rex (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 420M

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
5x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 200 MHz
24x more pipelines: 96 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
132.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 3
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 86 vs 70

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	397 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	86 vs 70

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

397

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
PassMark - G3D Mark	397	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	86	70
Geekbench - OpenCL	1583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	162.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2906

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	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	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	200 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	96	4
Texture fill rate	6.0 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	(G)DDR3
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
CUDA