ATI Radeon 9500 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9500 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2 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 + nForce2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500 PRO

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9500 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Celsius
Code name	R300	Crush17
Launch date	1 October 2002	1 October 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	110 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz
Memory type	DDR