AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M420

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1000MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +652%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2015

Gem System

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

95W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Amethyst

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

E8950

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

5 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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