NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 96 vs 32
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 96 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 146
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 30
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 2744
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 2744
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines 96 vs 32
Floating-point performance 192 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 397 vs 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 89 vs 30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2906 vs 2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2906 vs 2744

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
397
146
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
89
30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2906
2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2906
2744
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
PassMark - G3D Mark 397 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 89 30
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 2744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2906 2744

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G96
Launch date 3 September 2010 8 January 2009
Place in performance rating 1509 1519
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1000 MHz 1500 MHz
CUDA cores 96 32
Floating-point performance 192 gflops 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 32
Texture fill rate 6.0 billion / sec 9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 314 million
Gigaflops 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 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
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type (G)DDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0