ATI Radeon 9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9700 and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon 9700

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9700

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 540 MHz vs 500 MHz
7.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 44 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2002 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	540 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	44 vs 6

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 152

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	154 vs 152

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

154

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	154
PassMark - G3D Mark	44	6

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Kelvin
Code name	R300	NV25 A3
Launch date	1 July 2002	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1094	1082
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	37 Watt
Transistor count	110 million	63 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	Floppy	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR