ATI Radeon 9500 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9500 and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 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 MX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 36 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2003 vs 6 February 2002
Memory clock speed	540 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	36 vs 4

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 1.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 176 vs 173

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	176 vs 173

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

173

176

Name	ATI Radeon 9500	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	173	176

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9500	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Celsius
Code name	R300	NV17 A3
Launch date	1 March 2003	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	990	991
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	110 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR