AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon R5 M420

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420 +106%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

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GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jun 2009

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

38W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

GT215

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

144 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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