Arc B390 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 ranking1099not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Xe3-LPG (2026)
GPU code nameJetPanther Lake
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (9 years ago)27 January 2026 (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 cores3201536
Core clock speed780 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm3 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate17.00120.0
Floating-point processing power0.544 TFLOPS7.68 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2048
Ray Tracing Coresno data12
L1 Cache80 KB768 KB
L2 Cache128 KB16 MB

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 x8IGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.9
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.4

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R5 M420 499
Samples: 62
Arc B390 9075
+1719%
Samples: 63

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 27 January 2026
Chip lithography 28 nm 3 nm

Arc B390 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 833.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M420 and Arc B390. We've got no test results to judge.

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