NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 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 GeForce4 MX 420 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 1.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2.7x more memory clock speed: 450 MHz vs 166 MHz

Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	450 MHz vs 166 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Name	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark		4
PassMark - G2D Mark		176

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Celsius
Code name	NV17 A3	NV17 A3
Launch date	6 February 2002	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	984
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	1.328 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	166 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	SDR	DDR