NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1301MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +4757%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jun 2018

GeForce 400M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

4

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

120W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Vega 10

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

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

6.4

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