GeForce GT 420 OEM vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Oland	GF108
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 November 2013 (10 years old)	3 September 2010 (13 years old)
Current price	$240	no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	48
Core clock speed	730 MHz	700 MHz
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	950 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	18.72	2.800
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops	134.4 gflops

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	28.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 November 2013	3 September 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm

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