AMD Radeon R7 M460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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AMD Radeon R7 M460

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M460 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M460 +309%

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M460

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GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2010

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

GF108

Meso XT (216-0864018)

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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