GeForce4 MX 420 vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameRedwoodNV17 A3
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date26 February 2011 (13 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 cores400no data
Core clock speed775 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors627 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Wattno data
Texture fill rate15.501.000
Floating-point processing power0.62 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs204

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s1.328 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)8.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 February 2011 6 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 5730 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5730 and GeForce4 MX 420. We've got no test results to judge.


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