AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M520 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, Memory, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R7 M520

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
5.2x more core clock speed: 1030 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
64x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 32 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

38.8x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889
PassMark - G3D Mark		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		147

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Oland	NV17 A5
Launch date	18 April 2017	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1153	1150
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320	2
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		190 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 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
API support
DirectX		8.0
OpenGL		1.3