ATI Radeon 9500 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9500 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x 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 9500 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500 PRO

2x more texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 540 MHz vs 500 MHz

Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	540 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9500 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Celsius
Code name	R300	NV18 A2
Launch date	1 October 2002	25 September 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	110 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.64 GB / s	2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	32 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR