ATI Radeon 9600 SE vs NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 SE and NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR 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 9600 SE

NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 183 MHz
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 5
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 143 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 25 July 2000
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 183 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	27 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143 vs 142

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

615.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 SE
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

142

Name	ATI Radeon 9600 SE	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	142

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 SE	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Celsius
Code name	RV350	NV11 B2
Launch date	1 October 2003	25 July 2000
Place in performance rating	1176	1179
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	20 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	7.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	183 MHz
Memory type	DDR	SDR