NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE 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.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
8.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	25 vs 3

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

800x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Celsius
Code name	NV36 A1	NV17 A5
Launch date	1 March 2004	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1117	1120
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		190 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	9.0a	8.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	32