ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE 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 9700

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 66% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 332 MHz
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	27 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

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GPU 2

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Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	158	158

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Celsius
Code name	M11	NV17 A3
Launch date	1 June 2004	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1071	1072
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.8 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 8x	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	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	275 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	128 / 64	DDR
Shared memory	0