NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +3164%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF108

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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