GeForce4 420 Go vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1523
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameM7NV17 A5
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 December 2001 (23 years ago)6 February 2002 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores22
Core clock speed280 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed280 MHz190 MHz
Number of transistors60 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Wattno data
Texture fill rate0.560.8
ROPs12
TMUs24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceAGP 4xAGP 4x

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRDDR
Maximum RAM amount32 MB32 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth3.2 GB/s3.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX7.08.0
OpenGL1.31.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2001 6 February 2002

GeForce4 420 Go has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 7500 and GeForce4 420 Go. We've got no test results to judge.


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