AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

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

AMD Radeon R7 M520

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 250 MHz
20.6x more texture fill rate: 20.6 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
12x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.6 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	2000 MHz vs 166 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889
PassMark - G3D Mark		5
PassMark - G2D Mark		168

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Celsius
Code name	Oland	NV17 A3
Launch date	18 April 2017	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1188	1032
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	1.328 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	SDR
API support
DirectX		8.0
OpenGL		1.3