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.

 

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
35
3
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
147
147
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 1118 1120
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