GeForce GT 420M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 420M
417
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GT 420M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
(G)DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A