Radeon 7000 DDR (Radeon VE) vs GeForce4 MX 420 Test In 8 Games (Capture Card)

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Published on September 14, 2025 11:33:41 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKCjKxAMui0

Game:

Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)

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Unitech Optimus 7000 Ultra 32 MB DDR AGP vs
MSI NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 64 bit DDR 64 MB vs
Prolink PixelView NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 128 bit SDR 64 MB

GPU-Z/HWI Specs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MVUO1kVPByh-4DlM7oxq5NtEdZL8gDM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osuwqIGBiADq-PZ96I3SGOagm8lLSBPY/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wYEujmPUUEK1WvZ8RZvm3EvuseXJl1fp/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18G7nwoB8IyA-I4W3dPoEMo7Fow-gCmDw/view?usp=sharing

All Games are in 1024x768

0:00 Intro
0:18 Soldier of Fortune
0:46 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
1:12 Half Life
2:10 Counter Strike 1.6
2:58 Battlefield 1942
3:36 Need for Speed: Underground 2
4:17 FlatOut
4:53 FlatOut (45.23 driver)
5:31 Half Life 2

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5P800-VM
CPU: Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz (Dual Core)
GPU: Radeon 7000 DDR or MX 420
RAM: 2GB DDR1 Kinston 400MHz (1+1)
Windows XP Professional 32 bit SP3

Drivers:
Radeon 7000 - Catalyst 6.11 XP
GeForce4 MX 420 - 71.89 for all games, 45.23 for FlatOut and 93.71 - only for GPU-Z

Capture Card: HDMI Video Capture - HDMI to USB
Together with VGA+Audio to HDMI Convertor

Game Settings:

Soldier of Fortune ver. 1.07fx86F
Dynamic Video Settings
Ghoul Light Method: Hardware
Specular Lighting: On
Detail Texturing: On
Detail Texturing Range:2.5 / 15
Texture Mode: Mipped Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: On
Field of View: VERT 78.6

Video System Settings
Video Driver: Default OpenGL
Full Screen: Yes
Bitdepth: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
Alternate Simple Textures: Off
Texture Quality: High
Skin Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 2 / 15
Texture Magnification Filter: None
Texture Format: (Default)
Translucent Texture Format: (Default)

Resolution: 6: 1024 x 768 (4:3 1.333)


Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Light Flares: Simple
Resolution: 1024x768
Full Screen: Yes
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter: Trilinear
Vertical Sync: Off
Quincunx Multisampling: Off
Anisotropic Filtering Level: Lowest
UI Texture Quality: High
Colors: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
FSAA: Off
Alias Shaders: Off
Advanced Texturing: On
Curve Subdivisions: Medium
Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
Alpha Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
OPENGL Extensions
Generic: Yes
ATI or NVIDIA Specific: Yes


Half Life
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768
Color Quality: Highest (32 bit)


Counter Strike 1.6
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768


Battlefield 1942
Video Performance: High
Display Mode: 1024x768 32bit
Graphics Quality: High
Effects Quality: High
Environment Mapping: Yes
Lightmaps: Yes
Shadows: Yes
Texture Quality: 80%
View Distance: 100%
Alternative Spawn Interface: No
Number of Bots: 50% (For purpose of benchmark)
CPU-Time Given to AI: 10% (For purpose of benchmark)


Need for Speed Underground 2
Resolution: 1024x768
Level of Detail 25%
Car Reflection Update Rate: Lowest
Car Reflection Detail: Low
Car Shadow Neon: Highest
Car Headlight: Off
Car Geometry Detail: Low
Crowds: Off
World Detail: 33%
Road Reflection Detail: Lowest
Light Trails: Off
Light Glow: On
Particle System: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Fog: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Full Screen Anti aliasing: Lowest
Tinting: On
Horizon Fog: Off
Overbright: Off
Enhanced Contrast: Off
Rain Splatter: Off
Texture Filtering: Lowest
Vsync: Off


FlatOut
Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anisotropic Filter: Lowest
Antialiasing: None
Frequency: Default
Triple Buffering: Yes
Hardware 3D: No

Layer Overlap: Yes
Racemap: On
Figurine: On
View Distance: Highest
Track quality: Highest
Texture Quality: (75%)


Half Life 2 Low (for MX and older cards)
Resolution: 1024x768
Model Details: High
Texture Details: High
Shader Details: High
Water Details: Simple Reflections
Shadows Details: Low
Game UI Color Correct: Off
Anti Aliasing: None
Filtering Mode: Bilinear
Vsync: Off
Game UI hdr Level 0
Hardware DirectX: 7.0
Software DirectX: 9.0

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