NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GF108GPU NameG96C
FermiArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size55 nm
585 millionTransistors314 million
116 mm²Die Size121 mm²

Graphics Card

Sep 3rd, 2010Release DateJul 29th, 2008
GeForce 400MFamilyGeForce 9
(9500)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 300MPredecessorGeForce 8
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

512 MBMemory Size512 MB
DDR3Memory TypeDDR2
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth16.00 GB/s

Performance

2.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.000 GTexel/s
192.0 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance80.00 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock500 MHz
1000 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock500 MHz

Render Config

96Shading Units32
16TMUs16
4ROPs8
256 KBL2 Cache32 KB
2SM Count4

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)40 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.6OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.0
2.1CUDA1.1