GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GT 420 OEM

GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory: 1048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce GT 420 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GT 420 OEM

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 480

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-375-A3)vsGF108 (GF108-200-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs585 million
Shaders480vs48
Compute Units15vs1
Core clock701 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs60vs4

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs1048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 420 OEM
TDP250 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs3 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    1.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    2.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    134.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better