AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M420

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420 +1294%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

GT218

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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