AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs AMD Radeon HD 6730M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6730M 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 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6730M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6730M +27%

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

VS

Radeon HD 6730M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

6

320

Shading Units

480

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Whistler

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

Whistler LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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