NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 475 MHz
Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 6.0 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 90
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.0 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	397 vs 90
PassMark - G2D Mark	89 vs 69

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 810 MHz vs 800 MHz

Memory clock speed	810 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

397

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	397	90
PassMark - G2D Mark	89	69
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	NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	G72
Launch date	3 September 2010	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1509	1512
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	475 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	6.0 billion / sec	3.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	6.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	810 MHz
Memory type	(G)DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA