AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile 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 RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1077MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +2484%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2010

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF108

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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