GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 1060 vs 420M among all GPUs

Gaming

GeForce GTX 1060
n.d.
GeForce GT 420M
n.d.
GeForce GTX 970
7.5
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

GeForce GTX 1060
5.3
GeForce GT 420M
5.2
GeForce GTX 970
6.5
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

Computing

GeForce GTX 1060
7.4
GeForce GT 420M
5.0
GeForce GTX 970
6.8
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

GeForce GTX 1060
6.4
GeForce GT 420M
6.6
GeForce GTX 970
6.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Noise and Power

GeForce GTX 1060
8.6
GeForce GT 420M
9.9
GeForce GTX 970
8.2
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more
6.5

Overall Score

GeForce GTX 1060
6.5
GeForce GT 420M
5.7
GeForce GTX 970
7.1

Winner
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 

GPUBoss recommends the MSI GeForce GTX 1060  based on its benchmarks and compute performance.

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Front view of GeForce GT 420M

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of GeForce GTX 1060

Reasons to consider the
MSI GeForce GTX 1060

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Much higher clock speed 1,544 MHz vs 500 MHz More than 3x higher clock speed
Much better PassMark score 8,686 vs 546 Around 16x better PassMark score
Much higher effective memory clock speed 8,008 MHz vs 1,600 MHz More than 5x higher effective memory clock speed
Significantly more memory 6,144 MB vs 512 MB 12x more memory
Significantly higher memory bandwidth 192.2 GB/s vs 25.6 GB/s More than 7.5x higher memory bandwidth
Much higher pixel rate 74.1 GPixel/s vs 2 GPixel/s More than 37x higher pixel rate
Significantly better floating-point performance 3,953 GFLOPS vs 192 GFLOPS More than 20.5x better floating-point performance
Significantly higher texture rate 123.5 GTexel/s vs 8 GTexel/s Around 15.5x higher texture rate
Many more render output processors 48 vs 4 44 more render output processors
Much better T-Rex score 8.68 frames/s vs 0.43 frames/s Around 20.5x better T-Rex score
Much higher memory clock speed 2,002 MHz vs 800 MHz More than 2.5x higher memory clock speed
Much better PassMark direct compute score 5,049 vs 280 More than 18x better PassMark direct compute score
More shading units 1,280 vs 96 1184 more shading units
More texture mapping units 80 vs 16 64 more texture mapping units
Better manhattan score 3,717.62 vs 1,997.16 More than 85% better manhattan score
Front view of GeForce GT 420M

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Nvidia GeForce GT 420M

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Significantly lower TDP 23W vs 120W 5.2x lower TDP

Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 1060 vs GT 420M

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
576.4 mHash/s
GeForce GT 420M
8.1 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
119.24 mPixels/s
GeForce GT 420M
4.33 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
1,766.73 frames/s
GeForce GT 420M
162.16 frames/s

Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
1,196.96 mInteraction/s
GeForce GT 420M
33.2 mInteraction/s

T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
8.68 frames/s
GeForce GT 420M
0.43 frames/s

Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
21.91 frames/s
GeForce GT 420M
6.85 frames/s

T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
3,358.86
GeForce GT 420M
2,936.79

Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX 1060
3,717.62
GeForce GT 420M
1,997.16

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