GeForce GT 420 OEM vs Radeon HD 8350 OEM

GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory: 1048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 420 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8350 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 420 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 420 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 8350 OEM
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-200-A1)vsCedar ()
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs292 million
Shaders48vs80
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock700 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 8350 OEM
TDP50 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date3 Sep 2010vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    1.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    2.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    10.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    134.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better