NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaicosGF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 December 2013 (10 years old)3 September 2010 (13 years old)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16048
Core clock speed775 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors370 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate6.2002.800
Floating-point performance248.0 gflops134.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s28.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data2.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 21 December 2013 3 September 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt

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