AMD Radeon R5 M420
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M360
AMD Radeon R5 M420
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M360

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

862
Place in performance rating
493
GCN
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Jet
Code name
Tropo
Laptop
Type
Desktop
1 June 2016 (5 years ago)
Release date
5 May 2015 (6 years ago)
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Price now
$160
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Value for money
4.88
Jet
GPU code name
Tropo
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
512
780 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
690 million
Transistor count
1,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
17.00
Texture fill rate
29.60
547.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
947.2 gflops
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Compute units
8
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
850 MHz
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
690 million
Number of transistors
1,500 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1125 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
1

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360 is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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PowerTune
+
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
+
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Enduro
-
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DualGraphics
1
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Switchable graphics
1

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
Not Listed
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon R9 M360 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R5 M420 or AMD Radeon R9 M360 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M420
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M420
AMD Radeon R9 M360
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M420
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M420
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M420
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R5 M420

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M360

6.16% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (512 vs 320)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 16 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon R5 M420 or AMD Radeon R9 M360?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M360 .

AMD Radeon R5 M420 versus AMD Radeon R9 M360 performance benchmarks comparison

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