
GeForce GT 420M and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
21151
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1410 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
253.1
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2