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).

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

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
310x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1550 vs 5
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 352 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	1550 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	352 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

1550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

352

168

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	1550	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	352	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	9618
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