NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • 212.5x more core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 2 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
  • 10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 41 vs 4
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 October 2003 vs 15 November 2002
Core clock speed 425 MHz vs 2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 41 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
41
4
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
173
173
Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark 41 4
PassMark - G2D Mark 173 173

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Essentials

Architecture Rankine
Code name NV36 A1 NV28M
Launch date 23 October 2003 15 November 2002
Place in performance rating 995 997
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 425 MHz 2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt
Transistor count 82 million
Boost clock speed 200 MHz
Pipelines 4

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 9.0a DDR
OpenGL 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 200 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz
Memory type DDR 128
Shared memory 0