ATI Radeon 9500 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9500 and NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go 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 9500

NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
137.5x more core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 2 MHz
9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 36 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2003 vs 15 November 2002
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 2 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	36 vs 4

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

173

Name	ATI Radeon 9500	NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	173	173

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9500	NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8
Code name	R300	NV28M
Launch date	1 March 2003	15 November 2002
Place in performance rating	994	995
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	110 million
Boost clock speed		200 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	DDR
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0