Radeon R5 M420 vs RX Vega 5

Place in the ranking	648	1040
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	22.75	no data
Architecture	Vega (2017−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Vega	Jet
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2020 (4 years ago)	15 May 2016 (8 years 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 cores	320	320
Core clock speed	no data	780 MHz
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	850 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	690 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	no data	17.00
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.544 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	8
TMUs	no data	20

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).

Interface

no data

PCIe 3.0 x8

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 type	no data	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	no data	4 GB
Memory bus width	no data	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	16 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors

no data

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12_1	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	no data	5.1
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	-	1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

20
+300%

5−6

−300%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

9
+200%

3−4

−200%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	15 +150%	6−7 −150%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12 +300%	3−4 −300%
Battlefield 5	12−14 +300%	3−4 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	13 +225%	4−5 −225%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +167%	3−4 −167%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14 +333%	3−4 −333%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 +1350%	2−3 −1350%
Hitman 3	8 +33.3%	6−7 −33.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +121%	14−16 −121%
Metro Exodus	20 +300%	5−6 −300%
Red Dead Redemption 2	18 +800%	2−3 −800%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	16−18 +113%	8−9 −113%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +36.4%	30−35 −36.4%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Battlefield 5	12−14 +300%	3−4 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12 +200%	4−5 −200%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +167%	3−4 −167%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14 +333%	3−4 −333%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 +1350%	2−3 −1350%
Hitman 3	10−11 +66.7%	6−7 −66.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +121%	14−16 −121%
Metro Exodus	15 +275%	4−5 −275%
Red Dead Redemption 2	14 +600%	2−3 −600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	17 +113%	8−9 −113%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 +54.5%	10−12 −54.5%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +36.4%	30−35 −36.4%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11 +150%	4−5 −150%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +167%	3−4 −167%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 +1350%	2−3 −1350%
Hitman 3	10−11 +66.7%	6−7 −66.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +121%	14−16 −121%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14 +75%	8−9 −75%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9 −22.2%	10−12 +22.2%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +36.4%	30−35 −36.4%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

12
+500%

2−3

−500%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 +250%	2−3 −250%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry 5	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 +350%	2−3 −350%
Hitman 3	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 +175%	4−5 −175%
Metro Exodus	2−3	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 +383%	6−7 −383%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

9−10
+125%

4−5

−125%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4	0−1
Hitman 3	1−2	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Metro Exodus	1−2	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6
+66.7%

3−4

−66.7%

This is how RX Vega 5 and R5 M420 compete in popular games:

RX Vega 5 is 300% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Forza Horizon 4, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX Vega 5 is 1350% faster.
in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the R5 M420 is 22% faster.

All in all, in popular games: