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.

 

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

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