Radeon RX Vega 11 vs GeForce GT 420 OEM

Radeon RX Vega 11
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon RX Vega 11
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory: 1048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce GT 420 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 11

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 420 OEM

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX Vega 11

HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 11

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGF108 (GF108-200-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs585 million
Shaders704vs48
Compute Units11vs1
Core clock300 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs44vs4

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 11GeForce GT 420 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs3 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    20.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    1.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    55.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    2.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    1760.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    134.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better