AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and AMD Radeon R5 M420 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

AMD Radeon R5 M420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 512 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 15 May 2016
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 850 MHz
Pipelines	512 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 M420

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	AMD Radeon R5 M420
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		493
PassMark - G2D Mark		154
Geekbench - OpenCL		14165
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		972
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16.5
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2979
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3165
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3165

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	AMD Radeon R5 M420
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Jet
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	1350	1113
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	320
Core clock speed		780 MHz
Floating-point performance		547.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		17.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,040 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz
Memory type		DDR3