AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M315 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).

AMD Radeon R5 M315

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M315

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 2 month(s) later
4.9x more core clock speed: 970 MHz vs 200 MHz
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
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 400 MHz
158x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 474 vs 3
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 147

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	970 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	474 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 147

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

34.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 23.28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 23.28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M315
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

474

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

147

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M315	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	474	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	147
Geekbench - OpenCL	3573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	780
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2761
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2761

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M315	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Celsius
Code name	Meso	NV17 A5
Design	AMD Radeon R5 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1135	1131
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	970 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	745.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320	2
Texture fill rate	23.28 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	3,100 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		190 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12	8.0
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	32
Shared memory	0
Technologies
DualGraphics
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore