GeForce FX 5800 and GeForce4 MX 420 - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5800

GeForce4 MX 420

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

NV30

NV17 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

February 2002

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

None

Core clock speed

400 MHz

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

125 million

29 million

Power consumption (TDP)

44 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

3.200

1.000

Memory type

DDR

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

166 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 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