AMD Radeon R5 M330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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AMD Radeon R5 M330 NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M330 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M330 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 23W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M330 +243%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330

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GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

955 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Exo

GPU Name

GF108

Exo PRO

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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