ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 and NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 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 9200

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 250 MHz vs 190 MHz
2x more pipelines: 4 vs 2
Around 15% higher memory clock speed: 460 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2003 vs 6 February 2002
Boost clock speed	250 MHz vs 190 MHz
Pipelines	4 vs 2
Memory clock speed	460 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 145

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 145

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

147

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	147

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	M9+	NV17 A5
Launch date	1 March 2003	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1129	1131
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz	190 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4	2
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.72 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	460 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	128	32
Shared memory	0