AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

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AMD Radeon R5 M420

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420 +126%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

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GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jul 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 9M

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

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

G92

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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