ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum vs NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum and NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
260x more core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 2 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
20.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 81 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 15 November 2002
Core clock speed	520 MHz vs 2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	81 vs 4

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 170

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

170

173

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum	NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
PassMark - G2D Mark	170	173
PassMark - G3D Mark	81	4

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum	NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
Essentials
Architecture	R400
Code name	R423	NV28M
Launch date	1 March 2004	15 November 2002
Place in performance rating	1000	1003
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz	2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	63 Watt
Transistor count	160 million
Boost clock speed		200 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	DDR
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	35.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1120 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		0