ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP vs NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP and NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR 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 Quadro2 MXR

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 143 vs 142
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2003 vs 25 July 2000
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	143 vs 142
PassMark - G3D Mark	8 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

142

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	142
PassMark - G3D Mark	8	5

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	RS300	NV11 B2
Launch date	1 May 2003	25 July 2000
Place in performance rating	1177	1179
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2
Transistor count	76 million	20 million
Texture fill rate		800 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		2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		183 MHz
Memory type		SDR