AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs FirePro M2000
General info
Comparison of Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN
Terascale 2
Code name
Jet
Turks
Type
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
15 May 2016
1 July 2012
Technical specs
Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines
320
480
Core clock speed
780 MHz
500 MHz
Transistor count
1,040 million
716 million
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)
n/d
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.1 GTexel / s
12 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
480.0 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
n/d
medium sized
Bus support
n/d
n / a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Form factor
n/d
chip-down
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB / s
25.6 GB / s
Shared memory
n/d
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000.
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
StereoOutput3D
-
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12
11.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
n/d
44 Mh/s
Advantages of AMD Radeon R5 M420
Much newer (15 May 2016 vs 1 July 2012)
Finer manufacturing process technology (28 vs 40 nm)
Advantages of AMD FirePro M2000
More pipelines (480 vs 320)
Higher memory bandwidth (25.6 vs 16 GB/s)
OpenCL 1.2 (Open Computing Language - an API for GPU usage in arbitrary calculations, e.g. for physics simulation)
StereoOutput3D
So, R5 M420 or FirePro M2000?
Technical City couldn't decide between AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD FirePro M2000. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon R5 M420 is a notebook card while FirePro M2000 is a mobile workstation one.
Should you still have questions on choice between Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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