ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 XT 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.

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 500 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
11.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	500 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	35 vs 3

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

400x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	35	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	147

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Celsius
Code name	RV360	NV17 A5
Launch date	1 October 2003	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1116	1118
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt
Transistor count	76 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		190 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
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