AMD Radeon 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 530 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 5.1x more core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 5.4x more boost clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 190 MHz
  • 30.7x more texture fill rate: 24.58 GTexel/s vs 800 MTexel / s
  • 192x more pipelines: 384 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
  • 340.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1021 vs 3
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 147
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed 1024 MHz vs 190 MHz
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s vs 800 MTexel / s
Pipelines 384 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 1021 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 vs 147

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1021
3
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
175
147
Name AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark 1021 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 147
Geekbench - OpenCL 5008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Essentials

Architecture GCN Celsius
Code name Meso NV17 A5
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 6 February 2002
Place in performance rating 1120 1118
Type Desktop, Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1024 MHz 190 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 384 2
Pixel fill rate 8.20 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 320/384
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s 800 MTexel / s
Texture Units 20/24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 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 DDR3/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)