AMD Radeon E8860 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8860 and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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).

AMD Radeon E8860

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8860

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 250 MHz
25x more texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
27.1x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 166 MHz
337.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1686 vs 5
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 436 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 January 2014 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 166 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1686 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	436 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8860
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1686

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

436

168

Name	AMD Radeon E8860	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	1686	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	436	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	26300
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	20.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	529.248
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.683
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	47.86
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1655
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1655
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4345

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8860	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Venus	NV17 A3
Launch date	25 January 2014	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1029	1026
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	625 MHz
Core clock speed	575 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	37 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	8.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	1.328 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	SDR