
Radeon R5 M420 and GeForce 9700M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M420 vs GeForce 9700M GT
Radeon R5 M420
501
GeForce 9700M GT
214
Radeon R5 M420
GeForce 9700M GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Jet
NB9E-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-II
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
-
Core clock speed
780 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
99.2 gflops
Gigaflops
-
148
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.00
10.00
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A