ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 71% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 175 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2003 vs 28 June 2000
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8 vs 3

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	143
PassMark - G3D Mark	8	3

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	RS300	NV11 A2
Launch date	1 May 2003	28 June 2000
Place in performance rating	1146	1149
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2
Transistor count	76 million	20 million
Texture fill rate		700 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.2
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		32 MB
Memory bandwidth		2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		166 MHz
Memory type		SDR