GeForce GT 420M and GeForce 9500M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce 9500M GS
138
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 9500M GS
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
NB9P-GE1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Core clock speed
500 MHz
475 MHz
CUDA cores
96
32
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
32
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
7.600
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR2 / GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A