GeForce 920M vs Radeon R5 M420
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 920M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M420 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce 920M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 920M | | Radeon R5 M420 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 (N16V-GM) | vs | Jet (Jet PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 77 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 954 MHz | vs | 780 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 920M | | Radeon R5 M420 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 920M | | Radeon R5 M420 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 15 May 2016 |
GeForce 920M
7.63 GP/s
Radeon R5 M420
6.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 920M
30.53 GT/s
Radeon R5 M420
17.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 920M
14.40 GB/s
Radeon R5 M420
16.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 920M
732.70 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 M420
547.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better