ATI Radeon DDR VIVO OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon DDR VIVO OEM and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon DDR VIVO OEM

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon DDR VIVO OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later

Launch date	14 August 2001 vs 4 June 2001

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 175 MHz vs 166 MHz

Core clock speed	175 MHz vs 166 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon DDR VIVO OEM	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 6	Celsius
Code name	Rage 6	Crush11
Launch date	14 August 2001	4 June 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	166 MHz	175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s
Transistor count	30 million	20 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA, 2x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	7.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR