NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A 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 GTX 960A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1085MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A +155%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900A

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Jet

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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