NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 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 6 month(s) later
• 2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
• 4x more pipelines: 96 vs 24
• 2.4x better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 80 gflops
• 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 106
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 35
• Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1731 vs 1458
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 1774
• Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1731 vs 1458
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 1774

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

• Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
• Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
• Around 98% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3307 vs 1583

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	397 106
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	89 35
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	1583 3307
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1731 1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 1774
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1731 1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2906 1774

Compare specifications (specs)