GeForce 3 Go 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 ranking1033not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)no data
GPU code nameJetno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)1 February 2002 (22 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed780 MHzno data
Boost clock speed850 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors690 million27 Million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data2 Watt
Texture fill rate17.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.544 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit32 / 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)DDR
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 1 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R5 M420 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M420 and GeForce 3 Go. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 M420
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