GeForce FX 5500 and GeForce4 MX 420 PCI - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

GeForce4 MX 420 PCI

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

NV17 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

February 2002

Interface

AGP 8x

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

29 million

Texture fill rate

1.080

1.000

Memory type

DDR

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

166 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

1.328 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0a

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

N/A