ATI Xbox 360 S GPU vs GeForce GT 420 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF108Xenos Vejle
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)19 June 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48240
Core clock speed700 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors585 million372 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt133 Watt
Texture fill rate2.8008.000
Floating-point processing power0.1344 TFLOPS0.24 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length145 mm260 mm
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 19 June 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 133 Watt

GT 420 OEM has an age advantage of 2 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 12.5% more advanced lithography process, and 166% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 420 OEM and Xbox 360 S GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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