NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD Radeon R7 M260X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock715MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X +185%

0.549 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

Radeon R7 M260X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

620 MHz

-

Boost Clock

715 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.720 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

549.1 GFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Opal

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

Opal PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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