GeForce 8800 GTS 112 vs Radeon R5 M420

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1077not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameJetG80
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2016 (9 years ago)19 November 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320112
Core clock speed780 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate17.0028.00
Floating-point processing power0.544 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs820
TMUs2028

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB640 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 19 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 640 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R5 M420 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 540% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M420 and GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M420 is a notebook graphics card while GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 is a desktop one.

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AMD Radeon R5 M420
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