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
• 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 88 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

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

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	88 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

Compare specifications (specs)