GeForce4 MX 420 and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce4 MX 420

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV17 A3

GN20-S7

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

February 2002

December 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

29 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

189.1

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

166 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.328 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

8.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.3

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

VR Ready