Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon R5 M420

Place in the ranking	1035	200
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	54.31
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Jet	AD107
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	15 May 2016 (8 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores	320	2048
Core clock speed	780 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	850 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	690 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	17.00	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.544 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	32
TMUs	20	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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 size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8

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 type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	128.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4

−1900%

60−65
+1900%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −2025%	85−90 +2025%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1900%	60−65 +1900%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −1900%	60−65 +1900%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 −2043%	300−310 +2043%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −2025%	170−180 +2025%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −2021%	700−750 +2021%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −2025%	85−90 +2025%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1900%	60−65 +1900%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −1900%	60−65 +1900%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 −2043%	300−310 +2043%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −2025%	170−180 +2025%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−12 −1991%	230−240 +1991%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −2021%	700−750 +2021%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −2025%	85−90 +2025%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1900%	60−65 +1900%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 −2043%	300−310 +2043%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −2025%	170−180 +2025%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−12 −1991%	230−240 +1991%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −2021%	700−750 +2021%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3

−1900%

40−45
+1900%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Hitman 3	7−8 −2043%	150−160 +2043%
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5 −2025%	85−90 +2025%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7 −1900%	120−130 +1900%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

−2025%

85−90
+2025%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 −2000%	21−24 +2000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

−1900%

60−65
+1900%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.27	27.27
Recency	15 May 2016	26 February 2024
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 2047.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 M420 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M420 is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.