ATI Radeon 7000 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 7000 and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 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 Radeon 7000

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 183 MHz vs 175 MHz
2.2x more memory clock speed: 366 MHz vs 166 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 144 vs 143
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 February 2001 vs 28 June 2000
Core clock speed	183 MHz vs 175 MHz
Memory clock speed	366 MHz vs 166 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	144 vs 143
PassMark - G3D Mark	9 vs 3

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 549 MTexel / s

Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s vs 549 MTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 7000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

144

143

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon 7000	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
PassMark - G2D Mark	144	143
PassMark - G3D Mark	9	3

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 7000	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 6	Celsius
Code name	RV100	NV11 A2
Launch date	19 February 2001	28 June 2000
Place in performance rating	1140	1141
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	183 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s	700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	30 million	20 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	7.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	2.928 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	366 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	DDR	SDR