NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420 +413%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 200M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Jet

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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