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.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

168

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	168
PassMark - G3D Mark	30	5

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Celsius
Code name	M12	NV17 A3
Launch date	1 June 2004	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1052	1055
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
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
Display Connectors	No outputs	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	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
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