ATI Radeon 9600 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce4 420 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 9600 PRO
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
- 2x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 200 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
- 4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
- Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
- 9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 3
- Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 148 vs 147
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 1 October 2003 vs 6 February 2002 |
Core clock speed | 400 MHz vs 200 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm vs 150 nm |
Maximum memory size | 128 MB vs 32 MB |
Memory clock speed | 600 MHz vs 400 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 27 vs 3 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 148 vs 147 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
- 500x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate | 800 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | ATI Radeon 9600 PRO | NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 27 | 3 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 148 | 147 |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO | NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Rage 8 | Celsius |
Code name | RV350 | NV17 A5 |
Launch date | 1 October 2003 | 6 February 2002 |
Place in performance rating | 1115 | 1118 |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 400 MHz | 200 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | 150 nm |
Texture fill rate | 1.6 GTexel / s | 800 MTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 18 Watt | |
Transistor count | 76 million | 29 million |
Boost clock speed | 190 MHz | |
Pipelines | 2 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | AGP 8x | AGP 8x |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 9.0 | 8.0 |
OpenGL | 2.0 | 1.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | 32 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 9.6 GB / s | 3.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 200 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 600 MHz | 400 MHz |
Memory type | DDR | 32 |