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.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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	1027	1029
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