Radeon R6 Mobile Graphics vs R5 M420

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1000not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameJetSpectre Lite
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)17 September 2014 (9 years ago)
Current priceno data$12.99

Detailed specifications

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 cores320384
Core clock speed780 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors690 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data17 Watt
Texture fill rate17.0012.79
Floating-point performance547.2 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 M420 and Radeon R6 Mobile Graphics 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.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP

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 speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 17 September 2014

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M420 and Radeon R6 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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