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.

 

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
36
4
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
173
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 996 997
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