GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GT 420M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce GT 420M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce GT 420M
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GP106
N11P-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2016
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
96
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
6.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
(G)DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 API
CUDA
6.1
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-