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

Boost Clock

850 MHz

n/d

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

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

StereoOutput3D

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (11_1)

11.2 (11_0)

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

Game benchmarks comparison

Let's see how good Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

2017

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Overwatch

2016

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Overwatch official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

GTA V

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to GTA V official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Rainbow Six Siege

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Rainbow Six Siege official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

2014

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Dota 2

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

R5 M420

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Diablo III

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to Diablo III official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

FPS tests

Real world test results of Diablo III on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000.

low / 768p

n/d

ultra / 1080p

n/d

World of Tanks v8

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to World of Tanks v8 official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

FPS tests

Real world test results of World of Tanks v8 on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000.

low / 768p

n/d

ultra / 1080p

n/d

StarCraft 2

2010

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to StarCraft 2 official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

FPS tests

Real world test results of StarCraft 2 on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000.

low / 768p

n/d

176

ultra / 1080p

n/d

World of Warcraft

2005

Official system requirements

Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000 performance compared to World of Warcraft official system requirements.

R5 M420

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

M2000

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

FPS tests

Real world test results of World of Warcraft on Radeon R5 M420 and FirePro M2000.

low / 600p

n/d

medium / 768p

n/d

high / 1024p

n/d

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.

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