NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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 9600 GS OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48
Around 60% better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 120 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 394 vs 282
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 88 vs 41
Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 2389
Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 2389

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 48
Floating-point performance	192 gflops vs 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	394 vs 282
PassMark - G2D Mark	88 vs 41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2906 vs 2389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2906 vs 2389

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

2x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
Maximum memory size	768 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

394

282

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2906

2389

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2906

2389

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	394	282
PassMark - G2D Mark	88	41
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	2389
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2906	2389

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G94
Launch date	3 September 2010	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1516	1529
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	192 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	48
Texture fill rate	6.0 billion / sec	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	505 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 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	(G)DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA