ATI Rage Fury vs NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta

Comparative analysis of ATI Rage Fury and NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Rage Fury

NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Rage Fury

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
2x more maximum memory size: 32 MB vs 16 MB

Launch date	1 August 1999 vs 22 March 1999
Maximum memory size	32 MB vs 16 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 100 MHz vs 80 MHz
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 200.0 MTexel / s vs 160.0 MTexel / s
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 133 MHz vs 120 MHz

Core clock speed	100 MHz vs 80 MHz
Texture fill rate	200.0 MTexel / s vs 160.0 MTexel / s
Memory clock speed	133 MHz vs 120 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Rage Fury	NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 4	Fahrenheit
Code name	Rage 4	NV5 B5
Launch date	1 August 1999	22 March 1999
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	80 MHz	100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	250 nm	250 nm
Texture fill rate	160.0 MTexel / s	200.0 MTexel / s
Transistor count	8 million	15 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	6.0	6.0
OpenGL	1.2	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	16 MB
Memory bandwidth	960 MB / s	1.064 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	120 MHz	133 MHz
Memory type	SDR	SDR