ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 230 MHz vs 175 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2.2x more memory clock speed: 366 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	1 December 2001 vs 3 March 2001
Core clock speed	230 MHz vs 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Memory clock speed	366 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 560 MTexel / s

Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s vs 560 MTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200
PassMark - G3D Mark	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	103

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	M7	NV11 B2
Launch date	1 December 2001	3 March 2001
Place in performance rating	1378	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	280 MHz
Core clock speed	230 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2
Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s	700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt
Transistor count	60 million	20 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	7.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	1.328 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	366 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	64 / 128	SDR
Shared memory	0