NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +1169%

2.437 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 400M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

815 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

307.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.874 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.437 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Vega 12

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XLA

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

Unknown

116 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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