ATI Radeon 9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9000 and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 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 9000

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 175 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2.4x more memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	1 July 2002 vs 3 March 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI

700x more texture fill rate: 700 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI

Name	ATI Radeon 9000	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	123

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9000	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Celsius
Code name	RV250	NV11 B2
Launch date	1 July 2002	3 March 2001
Place in performance rating	1294	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	700 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt
Transistor count	36 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	1.4	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	1.328 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	DDR	SDR