AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M420

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1531MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +44%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Feb 2019

Gem System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

256

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

GP108

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.4

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