NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1038MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +388%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Jet

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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