ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
- 2.9x more memory clock speed: 486 MHz vs 166 MHz
- 6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 30 vs 5
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 1 June 2004 vs 6 February 2002 |
Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm vs 150 nm |
Memory clock speed | 486 MHz vs 166 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 30 vs 5 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
- Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 166
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 168 vs 166 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
PassMark - G2D Mark |
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Name | ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 166 | 168 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 30 | 5 |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Rage 9 | Celsius |
Code name | M12 | NV17 A3 |
Launch date | 1 June 2004 | 6 February 2002 |
Place in performance rating | 1023 | 1026 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 210 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 250 MHz | 250 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | 150 nm |
Pipelines | 4 | |
Texture fill rate | 1 GTexel / s | 1 GTexel / s |
Transistor count | 76 million | 29 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | AGP 4x | AGP 4x |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 9.0 | 8.0 |
OpenGL | 2.0 | 1.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | 64 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 3.89 GB / s | 1.328 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 183 Bit | 64 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 486 MHz | 166 MHz |
Memory type | 64 | SDR |
Shared memory | no |