ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI
Graphics Processor
| GPU model | Broadway | NV17 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU variant | Broadway PRO (216-0769024) | MX420 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Celsius |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Manufacturing process | 40 nm | 150 nm |
| Number of transistors | 1,040 million | 29 million |
| Die size | 166 mm² | 65 mm² |
Mobile graphics
| Release date | Jan 7th, 2010 | — |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | Manhattan (Mobility HD 5800) | — |
| Production | End-of-life | — |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | — |
| Reviews | 2 in our database | — |
| Predecessor | M9x | — |
| Successor | Vancouver | — |
Clocks
| GPU clock | 500 MHz | 250 MHz |
|---|---|---|
| Memory clock | 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective | 166 MHz |
Memory Configuration
| Memory size | 1024 MB | 64 MB |
|---|---|---|
| Memory type | GDDR5 | SDR |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Bandwidth | 64.00 GB/s | 1.328 GB/s |
Render Configuration
| Shading units | 800 | — |
|---|---|---|
| TMUs | 40 | 4 |
| ROPs | 16 | 2 |
| Compute units | 10 | — |
| Cache L1 | 8 KB (per CU) | — |
| Cache L2 | 256 KB | — |
| Pixel shaders | — | 2 |
| Vertex shaders | — | 0 |
Performance
| Pixel rate | 8.000 GPixel/s | 500.0 MPixel/s |
|---|---|---|
| Texture rate | 20.00 GTexel/s | 1.000 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) performance | 800.0 GFLOPS | — |
Dimensions & Outputs
| TDP | 30 W | unknown |
|---|---|---|
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x VGA1x S-Video |
| Slot width | — | Single-slot |
| Suggested PSU | — | 200 W |
| Power connectors | — | None |
API Support & Features
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 7.0 |
|---|---|---|
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 1.5 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | — |
| Vulkan | — | — |
| Shader model | 5.0 | — |
| Pixel shader | — | 1.1 |
| Vertex shader | — | 1.1 |
Other Features
Graphics Card
| Release date | — | Feb 6th, 2002 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | — | GeForce 4 MX |
| Production | — | End-of-life |
| Interface | — | PCI |
| Predecessor | — | GeForce 3 |
| Successor | — | GeForce 4 Ti |
