AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M420 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. 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 R5 M420

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M420

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 3 month(s) later
3.9x more core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 200 MHz
4.5x more boost clock speed: 850 MHz vs 190 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
5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
163x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 489 vs 3
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 153 vs 147

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 200 MHz
Boost clock speed	850 MHz vs 190 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	489 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	153 vs 147

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

46.8x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 17.1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 17.1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M420
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

489

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

153

147

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M420	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	489	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	153	147
Geekbench - OpenCL	14165
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	972
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16.5
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2979
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3165
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3165

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M420	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Jet	NV17 A5
Launch date	15 May 2016	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1127	1124
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz	190 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320	2
Texture fill rate	17.1 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	8.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	32