NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 400 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
2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 January 2003 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18 vs 3

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

250x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 146

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

146

147

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G2D Mark	146	147
PassMark - G3D Mark	18	3

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Celsius
Code name	NV30	NV17 A5
Launch date	21 January 2003	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1117	1118
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	125 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		190 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0a	8.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	32