GeForce GT 420M and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 420M
417
Radeon HD 5550
387
GeForce GT 420M
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
Redwood
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
8.800
Memory type
(G)DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A