ATI Radeon 7500 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 7500 and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI 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 Radeon 7500

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 290 MHz vs 175 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 460 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	14 August 2001 vs 28 June 2000
Core clock speed	290 MHz vs 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	460 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

402.3x more texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 7500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Name	ATI Radeon 7500	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	35

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 7500	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	RV200	NV11 A2
Launch date	14 August 2001	28 June 2000
Place in performance rating	1670	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	290 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.74 GTexel / s	700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	60 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	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	7.36 GB / s	664 MB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	32 Bit
Memory clock speed	460 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	DDR	SDR