ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 1.56 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Launch date	16 April 2002 vs 1 March 2002
Texture fill rate	1.56 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 260 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
Around 53% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 360 MHz

Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 260 MHz
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 360 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	RV200	NV18 A4
Launch date	16 April 2002	1 March 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	260 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.56 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	60 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		275 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.76 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	275 Bit
Memory clock speed	360 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	DDR	32