Radeon R5 M420 and GeForce GTS 250M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M420 vs GeForce GTS 250M
Radeon R5 M420
501
GeForce GTS 250M
570
Radeon R5 M420
GeForce GTS 250M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Jet
N10E-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
-
Core clock speed
780 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.00
16.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Power management
-
8.0