NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 - Video Composition (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 710 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 700 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 13.17 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 192 vs 48
2.4x better floating-point performance: 316.0 gflops vs 134.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	9 April 2015 vs 3 September 2010
Core clock speed	823 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.17 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 48
Floating-point performance	316.0 gflops vs 134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

2x more maximum memory size: 1048 MB vs 512 MB

Maximum memory size	1048 MB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark		426
PassMark - G2D Mark		189
Geekbench - OpenCL		1161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		109.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		8.55
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1626

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GK208B	GF108
Launch date	9 April 2015	3 September 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1526
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	823 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	316.0 gflops	134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	48
Texture fill rate	13.17 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1048 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3