AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 32x more texture fill rate: 32 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
  • 310.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1554 vs 5
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 354 vs 168
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 32 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 1554 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 354 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1554
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
354
168
Name AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
PassMark - G3D Mark 1554 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 354 168
Geekbench - OpenCL 9633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 516.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 32.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 111.138
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3326
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3326

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Celsius
Code name Tropo NV17 A3
Launch date 5 May 2015 6 February 2002
Place in performance rating 1027 1024
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Core clock speed 775 MHz 250 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 32 GTexel / s 1 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,500 million 29 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 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