AMD Radeon E9171 MCM vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9171 MCM and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9171 MCM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 17 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 6.4x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 175 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 180 nm
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 32 MB
  • 36.1x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 166 MHz
Launch date 3 October 2017 vs 28 June 2000
Core clock speed 1124 MHz vs 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

  • 17.9x more texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 39.01 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 700 MTexel / s vs 39.01 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9171 MCM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Name AMD Radeon E9171 MCM NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 27.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 924.953
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 97.705
PassMark - G3D Mark 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 143

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E9171 MCM NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Celsius
Code name Lexa NV11 A2
Launch date 3 October 2017 28 June 2000
Place in performance rating 1181 1180
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Core clock speed 1124 MHz 175 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 180 nm
Pipelines 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel / s 700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million 20 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.5 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB / s 2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 166 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 SDR