AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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 520

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
5.2x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 200 MHz
5.4x more boost clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 190 MHz
25.8x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 800 MTexel / s
160x more pipelines: 320 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
128x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 32 MB
11.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 400 MHz
287.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 862 vs 3
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 202 vs 147

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz vs 190 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s vs 800 MTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	862 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	202 vs 147

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

862

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

202

147

Name	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	862	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	202	147
Geekbench - OpenCL	26304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1242
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Oland	NV17 A5
Design	Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	1st Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1119	1117
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz	190 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320	2
Pixel fill rate	4.10 GP/s
Render output units	4
Stream Processors	320
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s	800 MTexel / s
Texture Units	20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	8.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	32
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)